NOLA joins Fort Worth and others who are enabling encryption, and yes, in an MTUG forum, Broadcastify and specifically the unauthorized recording and re-broadcast of radio traffic was cited as one main reason. What bothers many in public safety is the fact that these recordings and streams are done without the consent of the agency. sure, it may be legal, but ethical? Furthermore, while local scanner enthusiasts are generally welcomed by law enforcement, the general public is another story. Most cops aren't thrilled about their radio transmissions eminating from everyone's smartphone. They bring it up to their brass. It goes up the chain from there.
Keep up the streaming without permission and watch the encryption use grow! Then there won't be anything left to "broadcastify".
As far as providing a key to the news media, if the media is leasing or owns radios on the LA-TIE system, and they are so encryption enabled, than they very well could provide an encryption key for those authorized media radios. This was the case in Jacksonville, FLA until recently, when those radios were "recalled" because the police claimed they didn't have enough radios.