GET YOUR TV CABLE ANTENNA DOWN!

This is very obviously written by someone who has no clue. For starters, TV Cable antenna? You either have cable TV, or you don't. Having an antenna is an alternative to cable or satellite. Apparently the author isn't alone in their thinking with realtors likening the aerials to relics of the cold war era. It is being assumed that TV antennas aren't used anymore. Au contraire! You may recall the recent digital television transition in which the old analog signals were being shut off basically alienating anyone who used an antenna and didn't have an HDTV or a TV manufactured within the last couple of years thus having a digital tuner. The government offered coupons for converter boxes to be used with an antenna to receive digital programming at a maximum of two coupons per household. 35 MILLION coupons were redeemed. Not just requested, actually redeemed in a store for a converter box. That means at least 35 MILLION televisions rely on an antenna for TV viewing in the United States. Do you honestly think there are 35 million water powered sawmills in operation? Hardly a fair comparison. Maybe those people know something you don't. Perhaps that in New York City that you can pick up 58 channels for free with an antenna, many of which are HD and all which come in with as good or even better picture quality than you get with cable or satellite. Gone are the days of fiddling with rabbit ears to try and clear the snow and shadows from the television picture; technology has advanced. While 58 channels might not be the 200 you get on cable, just how many of those 200 channels do you really watch? You may call it an eyesore, I call it saving over $1000 a year. In this economy it should be of no surprise why the enlightened are actually putting up new antennas where there were none before rather than taking them down. If you can afford to give at least 35 million people free cable TV for life in exchange for removing their antennas, then DO IT. Otherwise think before opening your mouth.

Why is it that no one wants to buy a property with an antenna or a satellite? Why is it that the general public has come to recognize these as eyesores? I think it has to do with the majority of the public being misinformed. People assume that antennas are relics of the past, yet we now live in an era where there are more channels in better quality than ever over the air, for free. Unfortunately, the majority also seems complacent with paying for 200 channels when they don't watch 90% of them. I bet that if you investigated people filing for bankruptcy you'd see that a lot of them still were connected to cable because out of all the cutbacks they made they felt that cable was a bare necessity to life. What does this have to do with this article? A TV antenna has a smaller footprint than a central air conditioner or heat pump unit sitting outside the house. I could call that an eyesore. Telephone poles or utility boxes for underground utilities — eyesores. Nobody thinks of it as such because these things are omnipresent as TV antennas used to be. People need to get it out of their heads that antennas equal bad. We need to break the stereotype that antennas represent poverty and neglect. Articles like this further that stereotype, reinforcing public's negative opinion of the antenna. People become afraid of the antenna. Homeowners associations often write rules (albeit illegal) restricting use of antennas because neighbours are afraid THEIR home values will be affected by the evil antenna. Public opinions of antennas like this lead consumer groups to petition the FCC to change the law to allow communities to place restriction on the erection of antennas which would further infringe on our rights. Perhaps if more people knew that with one of these tools of the devil they could watch all of televisions most popular shows for free in as good or better quality as they do now, they'd get one themselves and so many people would have one they'd no longer be construed as eyesores anymore. Until then, people should look at antennas with a more open mind. Is the antenna falling off with broken elements, rusted with cables hanging everywhere? Okay, that's neglect. But if you see one that isn't in disrepair, it's likely in use. Don't discount that homeowner because of their choice not to feed into corporate media conglomerate greed. Frugal people shouldn't be condemned. Maybe that homeowner would have more time to spend with the upkeep of their home on the inside instead of couch surfing the premium channels all day. For a home buyer to immediately develop preconceived notions of a property solely based on the existence of an antenna is a real shame. If I were the buyer, it'd add a couple hundred to my offer. I'd thank them since I wouldn't have to put up one myself! Unfortunately, everyone does not have a similar view as me and unfortunately two little comments to a blog aren't going to sway the opinion of 300 million, but hopefully someone out there reading this will think twice the next time they see an antenna so that we don't have to be telling people they've got to take them down if they want to stand a chance of selling their house for top dollar.

Ha, I got a house that I am remodeling slowly and guess what I am chucking the dish and putting up an antenna instead. Why not and screw what others might think. Only someone who is in their teens would thinks "oh my gosh look at that metal thing up there, they must be poor" LOL. Cable and Sat is for schmucks it is a scam, worthless, mostly gross horrible programing and I get digital channels that keep me informed on the local stuff and evening news. I would love to see a good source for this fact that NO ONE wants to buy a place based on an antenna . I looked for a place with a tower actually but there wasn't one open to the market. The attitude of this article is what I hate these day, it is the attitude of alot of americans that wouldn't survive if the electricity was out for more that two weeks, probably less. Like when I bought this place I make six figures and the broker was beside herself that I chose this old neighborhood and old fixer upper that called with her snobby attitude she called a starter home and is not a real house LOL. My approach is the one of my grandparents the greatest generation not some cell phone flipping boomer or teenie who is part of the mass of zombies that has this once great nation going down the tubes.

I just completed rebuilding an 1850's house and finished by mounting an antenna on the roof. I live in a fringe area, so I only get 24 perfect channels. I am not anti-technology, but do not understand why the water department shuts off the meters of people who have cable TV (duh, if you cannot pay your necessities, cut out the excess. Over-the-air TV is FREE.) I'm not poor, and I can afford cable, but I choose not to have it. In my opinion my antenna says "an intelligent person who has sorted priorities lives here!"

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