“There are several ways that you can still see your favorite shows, including using an antenna to get CBS free over the air.”

An antenna? Where does that go, on top of the cathode-ray tube?

That’s one of the tips Time Warner Cable put up on screen after it stopped showing CBS around the country on Friday. There was also some invective about what CBS is demanding that led the cable company to impose a blackout.

As a subscriber in New York, I felt like the child who walks into the house to hear Mom explain that Dad is gone and can be visited on Wednesdays and alternate weekends. Children don’t care why, or who was wronged; they just don’t want divorce to change anything, and they especially don’t want to commute across town to see their father.

Plenty of people don’t love “Under the Dome” and rarely watch CBS (“The Big Bang Theory” reruns can be found on other channels), and relatively few prefer “CBS This Morning” to “Today” or “Good Morning America.”