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Since that article was published significant amounts of spectrum were taken back from the TV industry and auctioned off to the highest bidder (cell phone companies, mostly): that's why everyone needed to switch from analog rabbit ears to digital TV reception.

Yes, and the broadcast companies don't pay a cent of rent. Why are the public airwaves given free to private corporations?

Why shouldn't, for example, CBS be charged a modest $1,000,000,000/year for their use of the public airwaves?

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