But today, less than 10% of American homes rely on over-the-air broadcast.
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Games are easy to find, played every Sunday in giant stadiums and televised exclusively on over-the-air broadcast networks (or Monday nights on ESPN).
It observes that in Mexico, pay television, which is the primary outlet for foreign programmers, is subject to significantly more stringent advertising restrictions than free-to-air broadcast television, which is supplied by domestic operators.
This disconnect has given rise to a group of companies like Bamboom (which I profiled last month) that are working to offer over-the-air broadcast to tablets and smart phones via the Internet.
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We read newspapers and watched over-the-air broadcast television.
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But the evidence suggests instead that we are seeing defections from the bottom of the economic ladder, spurred in part by a return to over-the-air broadcast TV among those households that were pushed into Pay TV by the Digital TV transition in June 2009.
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The page will include current X Games 16 content (daily highlights and discipline highlights), ESPN Films (30 for 30: The Birth of Big Air, 199 Lives: The Travis Pastrana Story, Shaun White: Don't Look Down, Moto X: Evolution of the Trick, and Down the Barrel), Athlete Music Playlists (from Mat Hoffman, Kenny Brack, Blake "Bilko" Williams, and Josh Hansen), As Heard at X music playlists (from our on-air broadcast), Phone Aps, and Free Podcasts.
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Nor will campaign reporting account for prodigious in-kind contributions such as an hour of nationally broadcast air time by Dr. Oz to promote Prop 37.
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While most people get their broadcast channels as part of a pay-TV package that usually includes cable channels, consumers with newer TVs, or an inexpensive converter for old TVs, can receive over-the-air signals from broadcast stations free in areas with good reception.
Newsnight carried a full, on-air apology for the broadcast a week later when it become clear that Lord McAlpine was not involved.
It has been unable to broadcast via air or cable since then.
Shelton and Bryan will co-host the broadcast, to air live on CBS from the MGM Grand.
In a broadcast that will air on OWN Thursday night, Armstrong will reportedly cop to doping.
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When the podcasting boom started, the BBC was very strict in only podcasting shows that had previously been broadcast over the air.
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The theory was to spare cable operators the time and expense of negotiating licenses with the myriad owners of content that was being broadcast over the air.
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As even quite rudimentary cable can carry many more channels of television than can be broadcast over the air, America has long had far more television channels than other countries.
If you're one of the viewers that's more interested in the ads than the game, CBS' site will have an interactive gallery updated with them as they air, along with the broadcast of Beyonce's halftime show.
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There is incredible irony that CBS made this announcement the same day that it submitted its legal brief before the Third Circuit Court declaring that there was no mens rea to air an indecent Super Bowl broadcast.
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Last year FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said the percentage of viewers watching broadcast over the air, rather than through cable or satellite, has fallen to less than 10%, in contrast to the precable-TV days when it was 100%.
Peter Fincham, ITV's director of television, called the figures a testament to "the enduring popularity of high-quality television content broadcast free-to-air to mass audiences".
While X-Factor, remains by far the biggest regular hitter when it comes to TV-related tweets in the UK -- 3.7 million of the 38.7 million made about shows broadcast free-to-air on British television from April 1 to November 1 this year -- it is not just entertainment shows getting in on the act.
Aereo takes broadcast signals for free from the air with thousands of little antennas, recodes them for Internet use and feeds that to subscribers' computers, tablets and smartphones.
In New York City, there are currently 28 broadcast channels available over-the-air, including major networks such as WABC, WNBC, WCBS, WNYW-FOX, WPIX-11, WNET-PBS, and PBS Kids, special interest channels such as NYC.
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Cable-television operators must continue to carry the same broadcast channels that over-the-air viewers receive once those stations make their federally mandated conversion to digital signals in February, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.
The major broadcast television networks say their scripted shows no longer air nudity, racy images or expletives, even after 10 p.m.
Yeah, we know that most of you probably won't be affected by this either way, since the Broadcast Flag only governs digital over-the-air broadcasts and the vast majority of Americans homes get their TV via cable or satellite (which have copy control mechanisms of their own), but the Broadcast Flag establishes a very dangerous precedent.
By 2000, every broadcast network had a seven-figure show on the air, according to Steve Beverly, a professor at Union University in Jackson, Tenn.
The Federal Communications Commission regulates the broadcast networks and the amount of time candidates are on air as a way to protect the public airwaves.
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