Massive Waste of Money Clock

That is assuming you watch only (or mostly) broadcast TV. There are channels you can only get on pay TV, which is why I and others pay for it. There's nothing wrong with free wireless TV mind you and you can get most of your programming from it if you don't mind missing a few shows.

And that's the key for me. I do mind missing a few shows. Cable TV is a luxury and if you view it as that you can make a decision as to whether it's worth it for you.

I should clarify that this post was a reaction to the CEA's "Spectrum Crunch Clock," which is based on totally made up numbers, and purports to report the amount of economic damage that broadcasting occupying the 120 MHz of spectrum identified in the National Broadband Plan is supposedly having on the economy. The first day the clock was at $33 billion, but the next day it was at $8 billion. Yet, that isn't anywhere close to the amount of money that people are spending, even though for them the service is a pure luxury, on pay TV. And, the reality is that many of these people don't know that they could be saving the $60+ a month and getting a free service which would still provide them with most of the content they watch anyway. The reality is that repurposing resources helps certain economic groups and hurts others. The repurposing will certainly help both the establishment wireless broadband industry and the pay-TV industry while hurting potential white space users (WISPs), broadcasters, and consumers.

ah, makes sense now.