Lost most of my channels!

In preparation for the new switchover to digital, I bought a new flat-screen TV (smaller, pretty inexpensive).

I've never had cable, have always gotten a few channels w/rabbit ears.

After Friday's official switchover, I now find I can get only a handful of the channels I used to get.
I have a whole lot of new foreign-language channels!

But, I'm missing 'my' channels on which I watched Dancing With the Stars and American Idol.
I don't watch much else, other than an occ. Seinfeld episode (that channel is gone too) and I'd just found some original Star Trek episodes on a local channel. That's gone too.

I have to decide whether I want to fork out the $$$ to get cable.
I don't want to.

Very disappointed here.