With our economy in freefall, everyone is looking for ways to cut back on their budgets. Giving a little more thought to the cable bill is a popular place to start. In previous days giving up cable basically meant giving up TV.

Sure you could probably pull in a few snowy over the air channels, but your options ended there.
Things have changed tremendously on this front even in the past year. There are now tons of options for cutting out your cable bill entirely without pain or feelings of deprivation. Here’s a list to sites that offer you free boob tube viewing:

1. TIOTI - A social media aggregator for television - what does that mean? They use the web to put together all sorts of information about TV shows, and let you the audience edit and add to that. You see what’s hot, what other people like and where you can get it from.

2. Free TV Online - Their goal is to provide users with a highly interactive and engaging video finding and viewing experience.

3. BeelineTV - Watch free online TV channels from around the world. Beeline TV provides a selection of the best broadband internet television channels.

4. OV Guide - Founded in 2006, OVGuide.com is the Internet’s most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to online video, including TV shows, movies, user-generated content and video games. Headquartered in Los Angeles, the privately-held company delivers an innovative, user-friendly way to search and browse relevant, high-quality video sites on the Web.

5. Choose and Watch - ChooseAndWatch is a free multimedia portal where you can watch hundreds of online TV channels, check out the newest videos on the Internet - no special software, hardware or subscription service is needed.

6. Democracy/Miro - Watching internet video channels will be as easy as watching TV and broadcasting a channel will be open to everyone. Unlike traditional TV, everyone will have a voice.

7. TV Web 360 - TVWeb360 provides a large collection of over 1,000 free Internet TV channels. Watch free TV Stations from around the world on your computer. Channel categories include News, Business, Entertainment, Music, Movies, Sports, Lifestyle, Educational, Shopping, Cartoons, Weather, Government, Religion and General TV.

8. Joost - Combine's the best things about television – great shows, great picture quality, something that everyone knows how to use – with the incredible power of the internet to bring people together and deliver entertainment on demand.

9. Daily Motion - Dailymotion is about finding new ways to see, share and engage your world through the power of online video. You can find - or upload - videos about your interests and hobbies, eyewitness accounts of recent news and distant places, and everything else from the strange to the spectacular.