YouTube's 'Antenna Man' Says Roku TV Burying Free TV Stations Deep Inside the Channel Guide
‘The FCC should require TV manufacturers to include a ‘local TV’ button on the remote to provide users easy access to local channels from an antenna,' Tyler Kleinle said.
ATSC 3.0: Tyler Kleinle, a tech guy who goes by Antenna Man on YouTube, spends his time assisting people trying to watch free broadcast TV with an antenna. But at times, it can be a struggle – case in point: when he tried to help his aunt set up her Roku TV last April. “Local channels from her antenna were not in the default channel guide. I went into the settings, manually selected the scanned channel channels, yet they still did not show up in the guide. It took me over twenty minutes to find a solution,” Kleinle said in a recent FCC filing. It got worse. “A few weeks later,” he continued, “my aunt informed me the local channels disappeared from the guide, and it took her several days of trial and error to figure out how to get them back. If I, a tech-savvy individual with a YouTube channel focused on over the air TV, had trouble finding local channels on Roku TVs, it’s a serious problem.” (More after paywall)
