Sadly for me, the local cable company that I use is the only source for the local minor league baseball and hockey teams which I watch, and they also carry a lot of local high school and college sports which they originate. This company, Service Electric, was the nation's first cable TV company starting in Mahanoy City PA to show people who came to see TV's in their Service Electric appliance store what TV was all about. They put an antenna atop the local "mountain" and ran a cable down to the store. Soon they were finding that buyers of the TV's wanted to connect to their cable, and that is where it all started. I have been using their service since I bought my first home in 1977, and my parents had it before then. The founder used to buy me drinks each week when I arrived at the Village Inn restaurant's bar before Kiwanis meetings. Until I find another way to pick up these local events via another service, I will keep paying the high rates to get the programs I want. I also have Netflix and Acorn on various Roku units too allow us to not have to add more cable packages to see many shows and documentaries we want to watch. I do not pay for cable boxes on the TV's in the basement family room or in my slot car room, and just watch the streamed programming there to keep the cable price down some.