On the other hand, the article implies that the broadcasters are not very good at... broadcasting. A big challenge for Aereo was finding a location that gets all the signals:

> "It's striking to me," Lipowski said, describing missing signals at many places around the city, no more than a few miles from the current broadcast center on the Empire State Building. "You would not get the channels that the FCC said you should be able to receive. ... It was just gone, you could no longer receive television signals, you had to do something different. That's not fair."

Some Aereo customers use it because they can't receive signals from the broadcasters. The broadcasters seem to feel that these customers shouldn't use Aereo. Instead, the customers should pay ComastTimeWarnerMegaCorp, who can then pay the broadcasters.

i.e. Not only do the broadcasters not want to spend money improving their infrastructure -- they want to get money for not broadcasting well.

The sense of lazy entitlement among broadcast and cable operators is pretty stunning.