“I agree that it’s not helpful to merely state that it’s asur, but I disagree that the assumption that some people who are considered rabbis doing something means it’s not.”
It means that it is a machloket. I was aware of R’Ovadiah’s tshuvah on the matter; not everyone agrees with him on this.
As I said, we don’t have a television, and I encourage those who don’t have one to give it away. But “asur” is not something that the entire Orthodox world accepts.