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Locast knew that the TV antenna was a rare sight in the US. But their plans to disrupt were short-lived.

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Dan Barrett
Sep 02, 2021
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As an Australian, the relationship US viewers have with TV baffles me. Here, almost everyone has an antenna stuck to their roof and watch broadcast (or as y'all call it in the US "over the air") TV that way. But the US has had a much longer, more established, relationship with cable television services. That means the antenna on the roof is not the norm.

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