• TryingToBeGood@reddthat.comOP
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    5 days ago

    because back then, your option for tv was… antenna. Period. Rabbit ears or an aerial on the chimney. (And yes, I am old enough to remember when the fancy tv options were available over an aerial with a motor on it, that you rotated to pick up different regional area broadcasts. Oooh!) If you wanted cable tv, you had to get an actual physical cable run to your house. All the other delivery options have now just sort of glommed on to the term “cable.”

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      4 days ago

      Apparently you fail to get the point. That cable is just a different means to receive similar content. And that different laws for either are nonsensical.

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      4 days ago

      They haven’t. Cable news is still CNN, Fox, etc. Streaming is streaming. Nobody calls their local broadcast station cable news, even though they likely get it via cable.