It's illogical, but not in a way that's fatal to copyright. If the broadcasters have control of the content, they can license its usage downstream as they see fit.
So it's stupid, but not self-contradictory. The law can be enforced with no contradictions.
> So it's stupid, but not self-contradictory. The law can be enforced with no contradictions.
Until you have a technology which is neither over the air transmission nor cable TV and there is no logical way to classify it as one or the other because the original distinction had no intelligible justification.
So it's stupid, but not self-contradictory. The law can be enforced with no contradictions.