You must be a youngster if you've never heard of rabbit ears!
People put a spare TV in their bedroom and watch broadcast because an extra cable box costs extra.
Tired at the end of the day, they don't want to have to pick out and line up a show out of nearly every show in existence, especially not one they actually like and might keep them up.
This. The only reason I ever watched those late night shows was because they were on broadcast, NOT cable TV. Problem is I don't watch TV at all any more. There hasn't been anything worth watching a decade. It's boomers keeping those shows alive now.
You must be a youngster if you've never heard of rabbit ears!
People put a spare TV in their bedroom and watch broadcast because an extra cable box costs extra.
Tired at the end of the day, they don't want to have to pick out and line up a show out of nearly every show in existence, especially not one they actually like and might keep them up.
This. The only reason I ever watched those late night shows was because they were on broadcast, NOT cable TV. Problem is I don't watch TV at all any more. There hasn't been anything worth watching a decade. It's boomers keeping those shows alive now.
And since I mostly watch older stuff those free streaming services have endless libraries of old shows and YouTube has a lot of old obscure shows
They still sell antennas for local broadcast, it just looks like a flat board instead of rabbit ears.