Why did they demonitize your video's. I have never seen anything immoral or anything that I would think would cause anyone to do that.

I bet it's because if you have a well tuned antenna, why would you need to pay for KZfaqTV? Corporations being corporations. People need to get their power back!!

Thanks for the kind words. I worked really hard on the speech so I'm glad it turned out well.

Thanks so much for supporting me a channel member!

We really lost a lot when we lost analog. I grew up half way between Green Bay and Milwaukee. We got everything from both cities. With digital, friends still there cannot get stations from either city. Forced into first cable and satellite. Now steaming or just KZfaq for news. Congress sold us our to the phone companies money. At least the democrats forced the free converter boxes. Who figures out how to force digital repeaters will be a hero to everyone. And for Tyler, that is no Bla Bla Bla. ;-)

NTSC really had no technical way to cleanly add DRM. ATSC made DRM easier, but technology from the 1990s limited the bandwidth on ATSC making DRM a waste of time. ATSC 3.0 was designed around DRM.

Typical corporate money grab. 🖕

@@thedude5040 NTSC had Analog Rights Management of sorts, more commonly known as scrambling. Look up Super TV and SelecTV. You couldn’t watch and listen unless you rented a set top box from the company. It didn’t end up doing very well. I think Tyler has a video on it.

I talked to the station manager of my local TV station to ask him about the upcoming ATSC 3.0 and DRM. He called me a "freeloader" because I use an antenna and am paying nothing to help pay the bills that the station has to keep the signal on the air. He said it's coming that you antenna people won't get a signal anymore when the tower is shut down but they will still use satellite for cable and dish people. They don't care.

@@trainmaster0217 Your seeing commercials on that OTA station, right? So you ARE paying your share. What a horrible response. It's worth noting that while some have that attitude, some do not. When I complained about reception from a local station a few months ago, they sent out a representative to investigate. He did his own signal checks and actually loaned me an antenna to try! Very responsive attitude. The real issue was multipath signals in the backyard due to trees. I substituted my high gain antenna for a low gain Channel Master mud flap antenna, found the best signal on the side of the house and taped it there. Problem solved. When I complained about signal interference on distant PBS station, I got crickets. Turned out that was due to the solar storm and the reception returned to normal a few days later. So it seems some companies are willing to work with your over-the-air issues and some are not. Interesting times for sure.

@@trainmaster0217 Jokes on the station manager, channels like ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX are required by law to have a mandatory antenna signal.

ya Ive looked in to it and 1.0 is getting fazed out. wont be long before OTA is gone. every one streams now

@@trainmaster0217 yep greedy bastereds 😂

Thanks for the kind words!

No problem. I will keep up the fight!

Me too, used to get all channels in our region on ATSC1 with our HDHomerun, ATSC3.0 and DRM have made it obsolete and I refuse to buy an ATSC3.0 capable device until the DRM mess has been sorted out.

When do we get Congress involved?

@@Fetherko Now! Contact your elected officials!

I bought one too. Still like the HDHR though. But I talked my sister into spending $500 more to get a TV that was ATSC 3.0 ready to correct her marginal reception issues. The result was that they put ATSC 3.0 on a low power transmitter so her ATSC 1.0 signals were still better, and on top of that, they added DRM! She still asked me, "So tell me again why I spent so much for this TV?" Yep, THAT burned me.

Thanks for the words!

From indoor antennas in my house, I get 40 channels from transmitters 10 miles east of me.

Thought the same thing. But even this week with MeTV Toons coming soon, some people in their 40s-50s were surprised when I told them they could get the major big 5 networks, MeTv Toons and others free over-the-air.

The people currently in college are worse than boomers just saying since they go against our traditions (it gets too political to mention here) However that doesn't include everyone you just need to find the right people who are nice. They think money is the answer thanks to the nice people being broke and the nasty people being rich snobs. It wasn't like this before 2020 something must of happened since covid for this to happen.

I doubt that they are dumb. I would guess their parents never used an antenna at home to receive TV and only subscribe to cable TV

@@javidial Word of mouth is the best method of giving news and spreads like wildfire! Continue to spread the word!

@@ArtieRaccoonReviewswe meet here

Thanks! I worked really hard on it so I'm glad it turned out well.

I have a ClearStream Max-V from Antennas Direct, thanks to a review of it on this channel. It has a claim of a 60 mile range, and I live about 50 miles north of Boston, It does pick up all the Boston channels, so I'm happy.

Televes is the best I got one to the bigest one

I also have the big outdoor Televes antenna and it is the best.

I'm here to protect your right to access free over the air TV without restrictions (DRM)

That is funny. 😅😅😅.

The FCC currently has no rules. Everyone, individually needs to contact your representative to keep the television band open and free. Fact is, the FCC won't just step in unless the consumer requests it. But don't get your hopes up! Even if the FCC agrees to new rules for our bands, the major media businesses don't have to use these bands and are most likely already planning to leave them if they can't use DRM. Part of the problem is that people are willing to spend money on subscription fees ALONG WITH watching advertising. That started back in the 60's with Cable TV. That shifted the entire business market platform so that stations on just an OTA advertising budget alone can't really survive. If the FCC had some rules to keep our television band DRM free, that would result in a huge band of just shopping channels. I counted 10 shopping channels in my area so far. Media owners may just decide in the near future to stream everything with a subscription and leave OTA television to just shopping channels. I was watching one of the new OTA News channels, which had a special "shopping channel segment." Really? Many of the major morning programs are doing this as well. Guess a lot of people enjoy shopping channels!! Which to me is sad. I saw this coming back in the 70's when everyone hopped on the "subscription" (cable) bandwagon. People ripped down their antennas, which they thought were ugly and lugged them happily to the curb, as the cable companies continually increased their subscription bills!! When the bills started to hurt, I suggested to my Aunt that I could free her from that cable bill shackle with an antenna so I put one up on her roof. Oh, it was a thing of great beauty to me!!! Huge and massive with so many elements you couldn't count them! Great reception, except it required a rotor. She drove up stepped out of the car and shrieked!!! WHAT IS THAT THING ON MY ROOF, TAKE IT DOWN!!! When she learned that she also had to "rotate the antenna" she blew a 50 amp fuse and went back to paying cable. Look at the generation of 20 and 30 year olds and you'll see, first hand that OTA television, as we know it, is doomed. The younger generation generally has NO interest in OTA television. They are NOT going to mess with positioning antennas. They will never use a rotor, period, nor will they mess with those antique style cable boxes either! They will use their $25 streaming devices for everything they watch. Networks will move their content to subscription streaming services only. It will happen almost overnight in the near future. People will use their Roku, Google TV or Fire TV stick as their new wireless "cable TV" service, and OTA television as we know it today will be officially dead, except for shopping channels. The FCC is really powerless to control this transition, even if they wanted to. Please don't shoot the messenger.

Thanks so much for the kind words!

I'll probably be invited to speak at some congressional meeting in the future

The main issue why younger viewers (older chidren, teens, and young adults) have less of an interest in over-the-air content is due to there being nothing particularly interesting for them. Only animated content as of now on antenna TV is boring preschool slop on PBS Kids and occasionally reruns of Family Guy very late at night on The CW. Thankfully things will change once MeTV Toons comes to be!

Exactly! If they don't put an effort into their content, broadcast TV is going to end up like AM radio in a decade.

Thanks for the kind words. I worked really hard on it so I'm glad it turned out well.

Thanks for the kind words. I worked really hard on it so I'm glad it turned out well.

@@AntennaMan Yes, you kept a good pace and did not seem nervous at all. Good for you.

Thanks for the kind words. I'm here to protect everyone's right to access free over the air TV without restrictions (DRM)

I'm here to protect your right to access free over the air TV without restrictions (DRM)

Thanks so much for the contribution, I greatly appreciate it!

Absolutely. Many say analog was terrible because it was full of noise, but we had a big roof antenna and got most stations in clear. No interference, no snow, no ghosting. It was even better than what the cable company could deliver. With digital it either comes in perfect or it doesn’t, maybe with some glitches if the signal isn’t perfect. Sadly most channels use far too much digital compression which looks worse than a good analog picture, and no user equipment can fix that.

In the analog TV day it was easier to find the best picture and sound direction to point your antenna.

@@AAa-qd8hb U liked your own comment

No problem!

DRM coming soon near you!

@@AntennaMan Tyler, I am afraid of that, I'll let you know.. Great presentation BTW......J

Agree 100%. They want to kill OTA as we know it by connecting it to the internet so they can get all the information they need to sell you ads tailored to you so they can charge more. I understand money is money, but I hope they can at least deliver quality in return.

Unfortunately, there aren't many of us

@@AntennaMan true me born in 86

Analog NTSC looked like garbage. Widescreen PALPlus looked better. Digital broadcast looks great if you give it enough bitrate.

Don't bother unless you have issues picking up some channels in ATSC 1.0. Even then, the money would be better spent on improving your antenna setup. ATSC 3.0 might flop.

@@AntennaMan Thanks to you, our antenna system is great. We are thinking on getting a new TV (ours is from 2017) and we are thinking of getting a new 75" LG QNED, which is 42% off for a 2023 version right now at Costco.

Thanks for the kind words!

It sure did. Sad really but this is what happened. I'm glad my mom was "Silent Gen", she knew what she did.

Good point. I knew there would be some things I'd miss in the presentation but I think the audience got the point.