Strange caption above the picture on the front page of the Media Guardian this week, which leads on the views of various TV luminaries about the possible death of broadcasting as we know it. The picture (just visible on this link) shows an urban skyline, with an accompanying caption stating that, eventually, the spread of digital TV will mean the end of the rooftop aerial.
Errr, shome mishtake, surely? Freeview - which, notoriously, only currently offers reliable reception from a rooftop aerial (as opposed to a portable one) - is the fastest-growing digital TV platform, and there are now more homes with DTT equipment than there are Sky ones. We'll be stuck with rooftop aerials (and lots of them) even when digital TV penetration reaches 95% and analogue is switched off.
Oddly enough, no reference to the caption's rather intriguing prediction in the story. Did a sub cut it out to spare the blushes of one of our leading TV industry titans?
