Saw this looking around last night...
ESPN on Xbox LIVE
Looks like Cable and Dish companies are being slowly worked around.
I conducted a test last night with a basic set of rabbit ear from Radio Shack and since I still have comcast cable for TV and internet I ran a comparison of available channels.
CHANNELS ANTENNA COMCAST CABLE
2.1 KWGN-TV 2.1 KWGN-DT
2.2 THISTV 2.2 THISTV
4.1 KCNC-TV 4.1 KCNC-TV
6.1 KRMA-DT 6.1 KRMA-DT
6.2 V-ME 6.2 V-ME
6.3 CREATE 6.3 CREATE
7.1 KMGH-TV 7.1 KMGH-TV
7.2 AZIECA 9.1 KUSA-DT
7.3 COOL-TV 9.2 9NEWS-NAR
7.4 24/7 12.1 KBDI DT
9.1 KUSA-DT 12.2 KBDI +
9.2 9NEWS N 12.3 KBDI WV
10.1
WWW.KSB 14.1 TELEFUT
10.2
WWW.KSB 15.1
10.3 KSBS-LD 20.1 KTVD-DT
10.4 KSBS-LD 20.2 NBC UNI
12.1 KBDI DT 25.1 KDEN-HD
12.2 KBDI + 25.2 TELEMUN
12.3 KBDI WV 31.1 KDVR DT
14.1 KTFD-DT 31.2 ANTENNA
20.1 KTVD-DT 38.1 TBN
20.2 METV 38.2 CHURCH
23.1 EWTN 1 38.3 JCTV
23.2 OORAH T 38.4 ENLACE
23.3 TORAH T 38.5 SMILE O
23.4 VIDA 41.1 DAYSTAR
23.5 FUENTE 50.1 UNIVISI
25.1 KDEN-DT 50.2 LATV
25.2 EXITOS 53.1 KETD-ES
25.3 SOI 57.3 WGN AMERICA
28.1 KLPD LP 59.1 ION
28.2 BIZ TV 64.5 COOL-TV
28.3 KCDO 75.4 DISCOVERY
28.4 KLDP LP 77.2
28.5 AIDA 78.6 TBS
31.1 KDVR DT 79.1 CO CSPAN
31.2 ANTENNA 81.1
36 LATN 81.4 KDVR
38.1 KPJR-1 81.5 KCNC-TV
38.2 KPJR-2 81.6 KMGH-TV
38.3 KPJR-3 81.8 KUSA-DT
38.4 KPJR-4 82.1 ION
38.5 KPJR-5 82.2 TELEMUN
41.1 KRMT 41 82.4 UNIVISI
50.1 UNIVISI 82.5
50.2 LATV 82.6 UNIVISI
53.1 KETD-ES 82.7 WGN AMERICA
53.2 KETD-D2 82.8
59.1 ION 82.12 TV GUIDE
59.2 QUBO 82.13 PBS
59.3 IONLIF 83.1
83.4 AZTECA
83.8 BRAVO
84.5 C-SPAN
84.6 C-SPAN 2
84.7 HSN
84.8 QVC
85.9 KMGH-TV
110.7 XFINITY
112.13 JTV
115.14 SHOPNBC
120.2 AURORA 8
120.3 ARTS
120.4
120.5 FYI AURORA
The only differences was Discovery, TBS and WGN (unless of course you are into C-SPAN and Shopping channels). So I think the reason Comcast don't hunt down people who plug in their internet only cable is they are not getting much more and they want to keep those customers.