[NowhereMan 1966]

Originally Posted by Jeffhs

There are, no doubt, other cities in the U.S. which have only one local TV station or no local TV whatsoever; Wildwood, New Jersey and Manchester, New Hampshire are just two examples that come to my mind as I write this. Cable and satellite service have brought every major network, broadcast and cable, to just about every corner of this country in the last 20-30 years or more, so even if a given metro area has just one station or even no local television service at all, it now can get TV reception "just like downtown" from every network--almost with no exceptions. The only exceptions I can think of are cases in which people cannot afford even bare-bones basic cable (local channels only) or are unwilling (or unable) to install a large antenna. Such cases (having to have cable/satellite or a very unwieldy antenna on a rotor) are very common in Western states such as Wyoming and in many parts of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico or Arizona, which have many small towns and rural areas some distance from TV stations; the tiny town of Sinclair, Wyoming (population 500), for example (I looked it up on Google) is literally in the middle of nowhere, being hundreds (yes, hundreds) of miles from the nearest city. The cable and satellite industry must do a heck of a good business in that part of the country, as without it there is probably no TV reception at all (if there is, which I doubt, it's probably only one or two channels, the reception of which on an antenna may not be and probably isn't even close to city grade), and darned little, if anything (!) to listen to on AM or FM radio.

I've also seen a lot of TV antennas on top of high towers on I-70 between Wheeling, WV and Columbus Ohio, usially in the Zanesville/Cambridge area of Ohio. I know here in the Pittsburgh area and the surrounding area, if you live in the upper panhandle of West Virginia or Eastern Ohio around Steubenville, you had to tune into WTAE-TV, Channel 4 for ABC. WTAE-TV is iffy over the air, even here in Pittsburgh so many people in those outlying areas are usually SOL on ABC unless they can pull in 33 out of Youngstown. However, with digital, the local NBC affiliate for Wheeling, WTRF, Channel 7 will piggyback ABC on it's 7.3 channel.