re: #186 b_sharp

From ‘65 til ‘68 I was living with my grandparents in a small town where 30 ft tall antenna towers had to be used to get the 2 stations available. The picture was grainy as hell. Hockey and Startrek were the only ‘had to watch’ TV programs for me. Christian shows were always on, but I spent most of my time reading or outside.

From 1962 - 1975 I lived in a town like that. Most of the houses were 2-story, so folks just put the aerial up on their roof. We had a mast in the back yard, with a motor-driven rotator. You had to aim differently for the Baltimore stations than you did for WGAL in Lancaster. The Baltimore ABC station, WJZ, did not carry ‘Batman’, so I had to watch it, if I could even get it, on the Washington ABC station, WMAL.

Basically, we had got the 3 networks, plus one independent channel.