Broadcast TV eyes its shut-off date

One of the world’s leading broadcasters is now actively talking about the day they turn off their broadcast signals.

The end of broadcasting linear TV over the airwaves is inevitable. At a certain point the volume of people still using those services is outweighed by the value of reusing that broadcast spectrum for other telecommunication services. The question is: how far away is that pivot point?

According to the BBC's director general Tim Davie, for the BBC that shu…