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Another site near borough hall now commemorates the first worldwide broadcasts by a local radio station in the 1920s and “the earliest transmissions of electronic television images.”

“The status quo just doesn’t work,” he said of broadcast news.

He told the broadcasters ominously: “Gentlemen, your trust accounting with your beneficiaries is overdue. . . . There is nothing permanent or sacred about a broadcast license.”

In recent months, the Republican-controlled Congress has passed more than $9 billion in rescission External link bills to repeal Inflation Reduction Act climate funds, Internal Revenue Service enforcement budgets, public broadcasting, and pandemic-era infrastructure spending.

Looking back, one can see that digital video recorders were a transitional technology in the march from over-the-air broadcasting to streaming, which is wiping out the usage of DVRs.