PSA: You can buy a magical metal thing that gives you free television
Are you one of the millions of young people who recently “cut the cord” and now only watch television through a variety of interchangeable streaming online apps and services? Do you sometimes get wistfully nostalgic for a time when you didn’t have to make decisions and could simply flick on a TV just to watch whatever was already airing, commercials and all? Well, we’ve got just the thing. It’s called an antenna and it’s been around for-fucking-ever.
According to a recent article from The Wall Street Journal, “antenna sales in the U.S. are projected to rise 7 percent in 2017” as millennials have finally realized that they can stick a $20 piece of metal on top of their TV and get a limited amount of free television for life. Most of these consumers get their primary TV fix from either Netflix, Hulu, HBO Go, or more likely a combination of all of those and more, each of which require a small monthly fee. But even with all these various services, they have no way of watching The Price Is Right when they’re laid out on the couch with the flu. That’s where the antenna comes in.