Google Fiber internet gigabit up/down. $70/mo (could throttle down to 100mbps for $50/mo or 5mbps for free, but why?)

Sling to get baseball games on Fox Sports Regional. This is a seasonal purchase, April - September. $25/mo half the year

Netflix (I also have Amazon prime for free shipping but watch it only occasionally). $13/mo

Rabbit ears get me the networks and I bought a $50 DVR in case there is something worth recording from live TV. $0/mo, $70 one-time for DVR and antenna

New Samsung 4K smart TV that integrates Chromecast/Sling/OTA/Netflix/Amazon/YouTube flawlessly with my Vizio 5.1 wireless soundbar. I use only the remote that came with the TV (I add a wireless mouse/keyboard if I am going to do stuff on YouTube). $550 one-time.

Don't watch much else except for some gratuitous Live PD on Friday night with my boy. It makes a fun drinking game when you have to take a shot when someone in Greene County, MO does something that would make a Jeff Foxworthy redneck joke. Expert level is if you can keep up with a drink every time there is a domestic assault call in El Paso TX. Unfortunately, you can get pretty drunk on domestic assaults in West Texas.

I think the point is to take the gig fiber internet for $70 (or less) and figure out what to do with the other $156 (or more) per month.

I would trade Netflix for HBO, and I would put at least $100 in my pocket and maybe buy Sling/Hulu if there is a need.

For me it is MLB, which can be hacked to allow in-market subscriptions instead of subscribing to Fox Sports Regional, but why not spend the extra $20 per season to go legit and get better video and a person to call when stuff stops working. MLB.com had no interest helping me fix streaming problems when I was connected to an IP address through Amsterdam but calling from a landline in the middle of the U.S. while trying to watch a Royals game.

Other sources of free content usually require playing a similar cat and mouse game. I would rather pay someone a couple hundred bucks per year to give me something that works instead of trying to game the system. For me, cutting the cord is going cheap but not going rogue and stealing content.

If you need a land line, buy an Ooma. The only thing that is sometimes a little bit sketchy is FAX (I can pull it off sometimes, but don't count on sending 30 pages). Put that and your modem on a battery powered UPS and then you have an emergency phone line. You can port your number and never pay anything more unless you want "premium" features and long-distance or international calling.

If you pay more than $10/month for a home phone, you are volunteering to get robbed.

Must suck to be in a place where home internet data is capped.

My cell phone data plan doesn't even do that... (they reserve the right to throttle me, but have never actually done so to my knowledge).

That's some premium Southern Missouri beer there. My buddies in college at Rolla felt like we were straight up pimping when we could afford to upgrade to Bush Light. Most nights it was Natty.

... and don't get me started on the Stag beer parties. Oooof.

This DVR gets the job done for live OTA channels.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00I2ZBD1U/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06__o00_s00
Lets you pause live TV and record. It requires a USB storage device, like a thumb drive or external hard drive but those are cheap and ubiquitous. You can set it up like a VCR to record channel x from 6:00 to 7:00 every Wednesday, but it isn't a TiVo that you can tell it to record your favorite show or timeshift the news after an NFL game. To my knowledge, there are several places you can pay for that service but I don't know of one that is free.

You can get a new Samsung TV that integrates all that stuff in one remote. I imagine other TV manufacturers are getting better as well, but I can attest that my new Samsung 7 -series 4K TV is far and away better than the 4 year old LG that it replaced. TV/Hulu/Netflix/Amazon/YouTube are on the screen when you boot it up. I also have a 5.1 Vizio soundbar that I never have to touch the remote. It goes on/off and volume up/down from the OEM TV remote. Smart TVs have come a long way in the last 3 years with respect to brands standardizing the HDMI ARC functionality and getting all of the apps to actually work without long waits or bugs. My Samsung TV remote also controls my Sony Blu-ray player. I select the input on the TV and it turns on the Blu-ray and the remote controls every function I ever use. Korean/Japanese/American devices are all playing nice at my house. You can use Apple/Fire/Roku if you want, but TVs have good native apps to cover pretty much anything you want including Spotify and Pandora.

There are also nice aftermarket remotes that you program to do whatever if you don't want a new TV.

There's nothing new about antennas. It will very well might work better with the new signals versus the old frequencies.