[mythtv-users] "Free Antenna TV" threat?

[Tim Ashman]

From what I have heard, this is a lobbying campaign being done by the cell 
phone network providers in the US who think that the US Over the Air 
broadcasters have too much bandwidth and are not doing anything with it.

The cell providers want to provide TV like paid for services over cell phones 
and want this area to do it in, and of course will tell congress they will 
pay for the bandwidth...

My take is that like most things involving big business' in the US, companies 
try and purchase marketshare through congress instead of innovating and 
playing fair.

What I am worried about thou is that this might actually work and eventually 
congress will do away with over the air tv because they will assume everyone 
just has cable anyway, so who is going to care.  It is all about getting 
elected in the US and a small minority has no chance of fighting back.  Being 
a minority of the population this will pass and eventually there will be no 
over the air broadcasts in the US.  A sad sad start to the new decade.

tim

On Friday 22 January 2010 07:31:27 am Colin McGregor wrote:
> I am just north of the Canada-USA boarder, so, I admit that some of
> the subtleties of US politics sometime escape me... So, could someone
> explain to me a commercial that showed up LATE last evening on WGRZ
> (Buffalo, NY) claiming that special interest groups were planning to
> take away "Free Antenna TV", and the the viewers should contact
> congress to stop this. The commercial was produced by the "National
> Association of Broadcasters".
>
> I have real trouble seeing any government anywhere in the
> industrialized world taking away over the air TV (would annoy too many
> people). Further, the "National Association of Broadcasters" must have
> some sort of agenda in all this, but at the moment I don't quite see
> what it is.
>
> So, could someone explain to this Canadian what is REALLY going on
> with this ad.?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Colin McGregor
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