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I worked on the original NTSC to ATSC conversion at three stations.

ATSC 3.0 is dead. There are no market incentives for uptake like the original conversion, no deadlines and zero incentive for broadcasters to produce or pay for compelling content.

The standard is written so broadcasters can compete with big tech, but what are they going to show, local news and M*A*S*H?

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Thankfully, outside of the US and a few neighbours nobody took up ATSC.

OTA TV is for old people, so they're going to show what old people want to watch: Fox Newsian "democrats bad, kids lazy, black people criminals" drivel 24/7

I am an old person and your notions of what we watch are insultingly uninformed. I have played around with OTA on my upstairs TV, where the signal is better, and it's fine for local news, PBS, etc., but I rarely watch much else on it. And I never, ever, watch Fox "News".

I'm at the very tail end of the "boomer" generation, 1964. I laugh at the people who blame everything on boomers and things will be a lot better when they all die off. What that fail to recognize is that in time, their generation will have power and the types of people attracted to power will be the same as with the boomers.

There will still be racists (Nick Fuentes); there will still be greedy corporate overlords who profit off of sick people (Martin Shkreli); there will still be scam peddlers dressed up in sheep's clothing (Sam Bankman-Fried); there will still be political grifters making life worse for everyone (have your pick).

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