FCC decides to let broadcasters, who depend on people actually watching, to decide when to convert from ATSC 1 to ATSC 3, which will brick millions tuners in old TVs. Instead of FCC setting a mandatory deadline.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/10/12/0052201
Most of those TVs, even if they're in service, don't have antennas connected to them though.
progo in NYC
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