It was not that long ago that apartments and condos routinely provided a local master antenna system. As I drive around Seattle, it's quite common to see the large VHF antennas on the roofs of apartments and condos. Obviously those systems have been abandoned in place... in some cases tens of thousands of dollars of abandoned investment.
Post DTV transition, there are only four VHF transmitters on the air in the Seattle area while there are about sixteen UHF transmitters plus several fill-in translators also on UHF. So obviously those big VHF antennas are slowly corroding away and the cable company has people convinced they have no choice.
