Cable is going up again and satallite won't work.

Call your cable company, ask for the cancelation department. Tell them your fed up and are gonna make the switch to satellite. This departments job is to try anything to keep you. Tell them you'll stay if they offer you one of their many promotional plans.

If your willing to take a few minutes of your time it will work and your set for a year. When the year is up call again!! It's their game but you can play too!!

Have you actually asked the satelitte TV companies about this? I have seen some setup that appear to be shooting stright into a forest of trees and it works fine. They have ways that we don't have access to to make it work.

I have an antenna and get about 10 channels. I can watch ESPN on the internet by using a family member's account number for the cable company's online services.
Even without doing that I can usually find what ever football game I'm looking for online.
Hulu, Stream2me, and other sites usually have most anything you want.