Would Anyone Really Miss Them?

If a tree falls in a forest, does it really make a noise if no one is there to see it?
If CBS is knocked off the air in 3 cities, will anyone really care?
From the San Fran Chronicle: Three million Time Warner Cable customers in New York, Los Angeles and Dallas lost access to CBS programming in a fee dispute Friday, threatening their ability to watch popular shows like "Under the Dome" or see Tiger Woods pursue his 8th win at the Firestone Country Club.

The nation's second largest cable operator said that CBS refused to have productive negotiations, which were repeatedly extended after their previous deal expired at the end of June.

As Friday's blackout stretched past a couple of hours, it appeared consumers would be caught in the crossfire for some time.

"It's become clear that no matter how much time we give them, they're not willing to come to reasonable terms," Time Warner Cable said.

Multiple stations that carry CBS programming in New York and Los Angeles were replaced around 2:15 p.m. Pacific time with a message from Time Warner Cable saying that CBS had "demanded an outrageous increase" in the fees it demands to carry its TV stations' signals.

CBS said it regretted Time Warner Cable's decision, calling it "ill-advised." The broadcaster said it asked for an extension, but that Time Warner Cable didn't agree to it.

Most of the cable subscribers affected live in New York, Los Angeles and Dallas, but customers in other markets also lost signals.

The CBS stations that went dark are WCBS and WLNY in New York; KCBS and KCAL in Los Angeles; KTVT and KTXA in Dallas; WBZ and WSBK in Boston; KDKA, WPCW-CW in Pittsburgh; KCNC in Denver; WKBD-CW in Detroit and WBBM in Chicago.

About 2.5 million Time Warner Cable customers also lost access to Showtime, the premium channel that carries shows such as "Dexter." TMC, FLIX and Smithsonian channels — all owned by CBS Corp. — also went dark. http://www.sfgate.com/news/texas/article/Time-Warner-Cable-drops-CBS-in-NY-LA-Dallas-4703898.php

Does anybody really watch the main 3-4 networks anymore and if they disappeared, would you be in in such a funk that you would find life difficult?  Especially if a cable company cancelled them- it's not like you would have alternatives to CBS, NBC CBS or Fox.

I've watched 1 CBS show in the last ten years or more- "The Big Bang Theory", they don't have the sports I like and there is no way I would watch them for the news or news shows.  So, if CBS disappeared, for me, it would be like, "so what".