If we can achieve universal broadband coverage, we don’t need broadcasters any more. This applies to all broadcasters, not just the rural relations.
Maybe so, but let’s allow the market to decide, eh? Over-the-air broadcasting has some advantages over broadband IP “broadcasting”, just as gasoline engines have advantages over electric vehicles, to use and example that gets FReepers all riled up.
Freedom of choice and free enterprise unencumbered by someone in Washington DC deciding which approaches are winners and which are losers are universal concepts.