re: #191 GeneJockey

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.

We had 2 stations available, both in a city some 50 miles away so the antenna didn’t need to be adjusted. Grandpa just aligned it so the picture quality kind of evened out.

My creationist grandparents didn’t allow us to watch many shows.