“With ATSC 3 only equipment blessed by the broadcasters through an arduous, opaque and expensive process will be allowed to tune content.”
Broadcasters get the public airwaves for free and are now encrypting what they send over them. Seidman lost Connecticut’s WFSB on his own tuner once it switched on DRM. E.W. Scripps bought a tuner maker, so the same company that locks the signal sells you the key. Docket 16-142 had about a dozen complaints when the FCC asked for more.