Re:It's Getting Harder to Tell Banks from Tech Companies
by reaperducer on Friday February 16, 2018 @01:14PM
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Are there suddenly unlimited over-the-air frequencies available to broadcasters?
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Re:It's Getting Harder to Tell Banks from Tech Companies
by gumby on Friday February 16, 2018 @05:48PM
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No, but there are so many channels of info these days OTA broadcast is a minor part of it. In addition the economics of the business lead to increasing amounds of network content rather than expensive locally generated content on the airwaves. And in fact OTA is much less common than watching local channels mixed in with otehr channels on cable, so again the local channels aer drowned out.
Looking up the stats a couple of weeks ago during a different HN discussion I was shocked how popular TV still is across all demographics, but local content was a plummeting percentage of the total.