In selecting TV service, you might take a look at satellite service. It's cheaper than cable here in Chicago, and every channel is available. The basic service has FoodTV, Discovery, A&E, C-Span 1 &2, History, BBC, National Geographic, Animal, Fox and Fox News, CNN, and about a hundred other channels of the usual garbage. We would have to pay about $5 extra for the Big Three networks, which we can live without. (We can switch to local antenna for them and the local PBS (which we often do.)
It's also portable, in that we take the receiver with us in the RV, with a second antenna, and have everything wherever we are.
You could watch for a promotional offer from DirecTV (which we have) or Dish Network, and get started for a very reasonable price.
The only drawback is that we can't use this service for Internet access, as you can (for extra fees) with most cable services these days.
Mike
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