Gazillions of Cable Channels and Nothing to Watch

Out of sheer desperation, we are watching the Olympics -- we're paying so much for cable television that we have felt obliged to get our money's worth, even it means that our brains will be pulverized in the meantime by the hysterically pitched commentators. We can't stay up late enough to see Jon Stewart. We have watched two episodes of 'Desperate Housewives" and 45 minutes of "The OC." The problem is, we seem to be just watching the major broadcast networks and in the pre-cable world, one did not need to pay a small fortune to get reception to ABC, NBC and CBS...