| ▲ | dyauspitr 2 hours ago |
| > but under 1% of US households have no cable, satellite TV, home Internet, or a cell phone. Why are you bundling all those things together? The only thing we care about here is cable or satellite TV for your argument. |
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| ▲ | eigencoder 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Those are all the things that replace broadcast TV |
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| ▲ | mulmen an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | They replace it for delivery. That's not what this is about. The change discussed here is about content creation. That content is already delivered through multiple channels. | |
| ▲ | dyauspitr an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Well, cell phones and home Internet theoretically also replace cable and satellite TV but that’s not really what you see in real life. | | |
| ▲ | eigencoder an hour ago | parent [-] | | My 70 year old grandpa just cancelled his satellite TV in favor of streaming :) |
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| ▲ | trollbridge 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Because someone with access to those things has no need for rabbit ears. Broadcast TV today is a stream of bytes. The same stream can be delivered via cable, satellite, a cell phone, or home Internet. |
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| ▲ | mulmen an hour ago | parent [-] | | This isn't about content delivery, it is about content creation. The rule change allows further centralization of editorial control of what your local reporters broadcast across all mediums. |
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