I haven't had cable TV for several years, except for about 8 months ago when I got tired of having nothing to watch and got it back only for a couple of months. Big mistake! When I got fed up with watching commercials and nothing but garbage and paying through the nose for it all, I called them up and had them cancel me again.
I now use Kodi for my media centre and have local access to everything I could possibly want to watch, and there are a ton of free live and streaming apps on Kodi, one should never have to have or use cable again. You can get tons of Sports, movie, animation, adventure, documentary... the list goes on.
There's a neat utility for Kodi called PseudoTV (or PseudoTVLive if you want to use the PVR option) that acts just like TV. It has a context rich menu system and you can watch everything on your media centre on demand. (
http://www.kodi.tv)
You can also get what's called a Roku (or Roku 2) which has a lot of free streaming media content. I have one of these set up in my bedroom with the Plex app so I can wirelessly access my media centre in the living room and watch a little tv before I go to bed if I feel so inclined.
The only cable I pay for is my Internet cable, and that's $68 +tax monthly. In this day and age of technological advances, one doesn't need cable TV anymore. You can watch everything you could ever need or want to watch on the Internet if you know where to find it, commercial free.
You might also want to get an antenna for your TV, then you can plug that in and get up to about 10 local "air" channels depending on your location. I got mine a long time ago and can watch local news while having my dinner, but get most of the major stations - CBC, CTV, CTV Two, Global, OMNI (Multicultural), a CBUFT (French), MeTV, and a few more, all in HD... One of the best entertainment investments I've ever made.