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> this spectrum should simply be reassigned for IP based services, with perhaps some set aside for non profit / educational uses, some for commercial, etc.

We've got internet, but no cable. So we still watch over-the-air TV, though it's mostly PBS at this point (which is non profit). Also listen to FM radio - mostly NPR, a jazz station and a classical station - all also non-profit.



We have everything and still use antennas for local broadcast: NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, Fox. Sports, especially football, are very easy to access over the air.


The advantage of watching live sports over the air rather than streaming is that there is no delay and the broadcast is as high quality as it can get rather than getting compressed by your streaming app.


It’s nuts to pay for commercials. More people have antennas (or griddles or whatever they are now) than get credit.


PBS and the rest of the broadcast industry could just offer streams of their channels over the Internet. It’s a choice they make not to.

(Disclaimer: used to work at PBS on the team with the guy who was tirelessly trying to get them to do this back in 2001.)




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