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Im thinking of dumping my cable TV. That will leave me with only two
local TV stations to get via an antenna.

Get a Dish Network or Direct TV system.
I pay $24 per month for 200+ channels.

Im considering buying a shortwave receiver that I can listen to while
I am doing things around the house.
Is there interesting programming available via shortwave? Is my idea
sound? What good receivers are worth looking at?

Domestic Shortwave Radio is full of 3 things: Jeezoids, Jokers and
Jake-the-Fakes. Foreign shortwave is informative but remember
that 50+ percent of what you'll hear will be the crap of Brother
Stair and Alex Jones, with a smattering of crooks who hawk
overpriced gold coins of questionable pedigree and water filtration
devices that don't work worth a damm.

Keep these in mind and find a used shortwave at a yard
sale or on e-Bay. Sangean radios are very good as are
some of the (now-discontinued) Radio Shack models.