Chris and Jessica Cox live outside Cook, where they can get one channel filled with static.
Chris, 28, doesn't want to pay for satellite TV, so that eliminates TV from their house and that's OK. "My wife and I don't have any interest in all the reality TV or the news documentaries," he said.
To keep in touch with the world, they read magazines, listen to National Public Radio and go on the Internet.
Chris grew up watching television, but in college found he no longer had time for it. Now he thinks not watching television will benefit his 5-month-old son. With books all over the house, he expects the boy to grow up to be a reader.
With no TV to watch, the couple has more time for each other and for others.
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"We talk a lot more. We'll play board games. We'll play cards. We work with the youth group at our church on Wednesdays. We go out on Sunday afternoons. We'll go out on a hike instead of sitting and watching a ball game," Chris said. "It definitively adds to our quality of life not to have the TV."
The only time Chris misses having a TV is the first weekend of December when the annual Army-Navy college football game is aired. Many members of his family have been in the military and it's a family tradition to watch that game.
His solution: An agreement with a friend to watch the game there, with Chris bringing the food.
