I was surprised to see the poll only going to "2016 or before". And I see many were earlier.
Outside of the 'nevers', I think I've got the record - 1992. We moved, and I was so dissatisfied with the cable service we had. It was expensive, lots of outages - for a while DW would call and they'd waive the fee for that day, then they started saying "well, it wasn't out all day", and we'd say "well it was out when I wanted to watch something!" They stopped crediting us, and I was done with it. I hate dealing with a monopoly.
So no cable when we moved. I did break down and promise DW I would get it once, but for whatever reason, I didn't keep that promise.
I suppose the price we pay for the various streaming subs exceeds the cost of cable, but there is a crazy amount of choice. I can't seem to wean DW off any of them, there's always something she likes on one and not the others. It's not beyond our means, so I'm OK with it anyhow. And we have OTA, so that fills in a lot.
Though the Amazon Prime thing gets me, we pay a sub price (for faster shipping that I rarely ever need), and when we want to watch something 9 times out of 10, we have to pay again!
-ERD50