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Originally Posted by bgadow
The one true advantage of my new rooftop antenna is I can get MeTV. It's introduced us to several shows that we just never watched before; I've become a real fan of Emergency! and my wife really liked The Rifleman. She's looking forward to Bewitched. A great network, I hope they can keep themselves from monkeying with it.
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I like Emergency! too; it's on MeTV in Cleveland (channel 19.2, DTV subchannel of the Cleveland CBS affiliate). I used to watch it when it was new on NBC in the 1970s, and liked it right off the bat. Still like watching the reruns.
I agree with you that MeTV is an excellent retro-TV network, along with Antenna TV; as I have said in previous posts, I watch these networks daily and enjoy the heck out of them, as they have almost all the shows I grew up watching. I too hope they are kept as they are, and not fiddled around with like TV Land and Nick at Nite were. The latter two networks are now mostly showing programs from the '80s and '90s, which can hardly be considered classics -- yet, anyway.
I bet you like being able to watch NBC, finally, after years or decades of being stuck with just ABC, CBS and PBS from Salisbury. I saw on TVGuide.com (when I entered your zip code) that the default OTA channels for your area are in fact the Baltimore channels, 2, 11 and 13, plus UHF and PBS.
Before DTV, were you ever able to watch Baltimore TV with a large antenna? Distant reception like that was probably much easier in the NTSC analog days, as you didn't have to worry about the picture breaking up or disappearing entirely. These days, with DTV, of course, it's all or nothing, and if you have digital subchannels on VHF stations it can be a problem, since many VHF DTV stations require large high-gain antennas to get any reception at all. That's the situation in my town. I'm 35 miles from Cleveland, but most DTV stations come in well here with just a small UHF DTV antenna. The two stations I don't get using this antenna are 8.1, 8.2, 19.1 and 19.2, which (darn it anyway!) are on VHF DTV channels; they either do not reach my area, very well or at all, or are too weak. I have been told that to get these channels OTA, I would need a good-sized outdoor antenna. So, back to cable.