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So I finally got GSN
urbanpreppie05:
--- Quote ---Well, you're talking to someone that, for years, at least once a day, scanned all the TV channels to see if there was anything new (and once in a blue moon, there would be)..
--- End quote ---
This is sorta OT...but did anyone ever take their standard TV's (minus cable) and try to find over-the-dial stations not near you?
Chelsea Thrasher:
Yup. And I only get 2 channels that way (Due to living in a rural area). a WB affil out of Knoxville TN, and a PBS affil out of Cookeville, TN that we got on cable anyway .
aaron sica:
[quote name=\'urbanpreppie05\' date=\'Oct 17 2003, 11:51 AM\'] This is sorta OT...but did anyone ever take their standard TV's (minus cable) and try to find over-the-dial stations not near you? [/quote]
Yes, that's actually a hobby called TV-DX'ing.....I once got WBFF-45 out of Baltimore in that way...
SRIV94:
[quote name=\'urbanpreppie05\' date=\'Oct 17 2003, 11:51 AM\']
--- Quote ---Well, you're talking to someone that, for years, at least once a day, scanned all the TV channels to see if there was anything new (and once in a blue moon, there would be)..
--- End quote ---
This is sorta OT...but did anyone ever take their standard TV's (minus cable) and try to find over-the-dial stations not near you?[/quote]
I live about 20 miles north of Chicago, and during certain conditions (mostly weather-related--I think [someone else here has probably got better insight]) I can pick up stations out of Milwaukee, South Bend, IN and/or Grand Rapids, MI (meanwhile, I can't get the alternate PBS affiliate out of Merrillville, IN).
Before the NFL changed its broadcasting rules to allow home markets to carry both halves of an NFL doubleheader (in certain conditions), getting those signals used to net me bonus games (sometimes they came in really clearly). Now the occasions to get a bonus game are rarer, but every once in a while it'll still happen.
And to turn this back to game shows, WTMJ in Milwaukee was the closest station to me where I could pick up the nighttime syndie GONG in 1978 (at one point they also aired the NBC/Woolery run of WoF about an hour and a half after WMAQ in Chicago did).
Doug
Dbacksfan12:
[quote name=\'urbanpreppie05\' date=\'Oct 17 2003, 11:51 AM\']
--- Quote ---Well, you're talking to someone that, for years, at least once a day, scanned all the TV channels to see if there was anything new (and once in a blue moon, there would be)..
--- End quote ---
This is sorta OT...but did anyone ever take their standard TV's (minus cable) and try to find over-the-dial stations not near you? [/quote]
We live in what I call a buffer zone. That is, we automatically receive 2 feeds of CBS, ABC, and NBC due to our location.
How does one go about getting thse over-the-dial stations?
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