I've never paid one cent to watch TV.
I live in the boonies and have a large rooftop antenna so I can pick up OTA channels 30-some miles away. When OTA went digital in 2009 I upgraded my antenna. OTA channels are adding new ones on a regular basis and I now get about two dozen hi-def channels all free -- just like when we were kids, that people seem to have forgotten about.
Then I started streaming in 2016 and with that, I have more channels than I could ever possibly watch -- all free. Of course I could subscribe to some of the more popular ones available with streaming, but I see no reason to.