Let me guess. These people exist for the benefit of as!n!ne local stations not willing to spend the money to upgrade and broadcast in ATSC, something adopted more than a decade ago. If you cannot afford the luxury of watching television in an era that isn't the stone age then maybe you are poor. And being poor means doing without such nice things like television.
Considering that you can get set-top boxes that handle the shitdown just fine, that you can buy boob-tube televisions with atsc tuners for under $400, and that the federal government is even going to subsidize poor people butts, the excuses are just not there.
If you are an analog broadcaster that cannot afford to operate in the digital world, then you cannot afford to run your business. Period.
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Let me guess. These people exist for the benefit of as!n!ne local stations not willing to spend the money to upgrade and broadcast in ATSC, something adopted more than a decade ago. If you cannot afford the luxury of watching television in an era that isn't the stone age then maybe you are poor. And being poor means doing without such nice things like television.
Considering that you can get set-top boxes that handle the shitdown just fine, that you can buy boob-tube televisions with atsc tuners for under $400, and that the federal government is even going to subsidize poor people butts, the excuses are just not there.
If you are an analog broadcaster that cannot afford to operate in the digital world, then you cannot afford to run your business. Period.