TV channels

rrlund · Mar 7, 2015

Not looking for the merit of TV or TV shows. Just wondering about reception in different parts of the country.
How many channels are you getting with an antenna over the air?
One of our TVs is pulling in 39 channels,the other one 47 here in mid Michigan.

John - OH · Mar 7, 2015

Only 19 channels here.

Dblair · Mar 7, 2015

6 channels in central Va.

Hank ABAB · Mar 7, 2015

Five.
But I'm out in the "sticks" in Alberta.
The OTA channels come in sharper than cable.
........ and the price is right!

oldsarge · Mar 7, 2015

1/2 as many as we got before it went digital! So much for progress

Dick2 · Mar 7, 2015

We get 70 some channels; after we block the channels that we don't want to watch, we are down to 43 channels with our antenna. Transmitters are on South Mountain about 20 miles away so we have a clear path to the antenna.

AG in IN · Mar 7, 2015

23 actual digital channels, but 70 total counting subchannels. I'm 65 miles from Chicago and about 15 from South Bend, IN's towers. Some are network duplicates, which isn't all bad if weather interferes with the signal or a station decides to show alternate programming. Some are foreign language, home shopping, or prosperity gospel channels that I almost never watch. TJ Hooker, The A Team, or Smokey and the Bandit in Spanish can be pretty darn funny, though.

There are also a couple of channels that are licensed but aren't currently broadcasting in the area. There's still one fuzzy LP-analog channel I can get most days. Nothing really there, either.

AG

Cliff Nelson · Mar 7, 2015

14 on the newest tv. Older ones get less. 40 miles sw of Madison, WI.

RCP · Mar 7, 2015

I am going to unhook our cable when the weather breaks and go back to broadcast TV, should get 8 to 10 channels.
I
have a couple of amplifiers I want to use, is there a way to test them to make sure they are good?

Rich

wilson ind · Mar 7, 2015

might check site tv fool helped me

ShadetreeRet · Mar 7, 2015

Kinda depends on where you are, and what is around you. At best, we were never able to pull in over yen or twelve channels with a large antenna about twenty five feet in the air. When they went digital, we lost our PBS station which was about 60 miles away. I may give in some day and purchase a new TV. As for now, I am surviving on an old TV with a converter box.

TL (Va) · Mar 7, 2015

12 counting the sub channels. Better picture than pay tv too.

Brendon Warren · Mar 7, 2015

5 here in NNY. It used to be 7 until I got a new TV.

omahagreg · Mar 7, 2015

We live in midtown Omaha Nebraska. If the leaves are off the trees, I can see all four of our local Chanel's antennas! Before digital, the on air came in poorly! Friend who serviced TVs thought we had 'too much' signal! Now with digital, it is even worse! One channel will work one day, then not again for two days! On air does not work AT ALL for us!

Jim in NC · Mar 7, 2015

Somewhere between 50 and 55 and from Charlotte to Roanoke/Lynchburg.

Farmaller · Mar 7, 2015

Got 18 here in central Va, but fog does knock out some channels, I refuse to pay to watch tv, so digital is all I have.

rview_ · Mar 7, 2015

(quoted from post at 22:46:13 03/07/15) Not looking for the merit of TV or TV shows. Just wondering about reception in different parts of the country.
How many channels are you getting with an antenna over the air?
One of our TVs is pulling in 39 channels,the other one 47 here in mid Michigan.

0, none possible with tower and booster. Northern NE

onefarmer · Mar 7, 2015

Randy, all my tuners (5 of them) are on the same Frisbee style antenna and I get channels:

5.1-2
6.1-2
sometimes 8.1-3
10.1-3
12.1-3
17.1-3
23.1-3
25.1-3
41.1-2
43.1-6
47.1-3
49.1-?
53.1-2
64.1-3
66.1-3

So 14 or so channels along with their sidebands for a total of over 40.

Interestingly all tuners get the same channels just as good.

Jon Hagen · Mar 7, 2015

12 channels, central ND

Pair-a-dice farm · Mar 7, 2015

(quoted from post at 17:46:13 03/07/15) Not looking for the merit of TV or TV shows. Just wondering about reception in different parts of the country.
How many channels are you getting with an antenna over the air?
One of our TVs is pulling in 39 channels,the other one 47 here in mid Michigan.

With just an antenna we get 2 channels in North AR. We recently got a Roku box and get a lot more.

BAnNC · Mar 7, 2015

We are kinda limited with the mountains around us. We can get 11 channels.

Cory Schmidt · Mar 7, 2015

In the house 11(5 are side channels off the main), full set. In the shop if adjusted right 3(1 side). In the greenhouse 4(2 sides). Sometimes can get the rest in shop and greenhouse, but that is very rare in summer with doors open. All on this on good days.

If the neighboring big farms are running through with equipment during harvest, we loose a lot of signal(get down to maybe 1/2 a channel in greenhouse) when the tractors roll through. Those useless converters for the old TV's for digital don't like anything going down the road especially tractors.

jm. · Mar 7, 2015

Wife just went thru and counted we get 28 digital . We are about 110 air miles from transmitters BUT we are on the highest hill West of them. Just like being line of sight.

rrlund · Mar 7, 2015

That's odd in a way. I get pretty much all of those except that I can't get any of the 8s and I'm closer to them than you are.
I'm getting Mt Pleasant,Traverse City and Cadillac though.

LAA · Mar 7, 2015

In Northeast Louisana we still get the same 4 channels that we got when Ike was President. But then again, we still have about the same population as well.

Fordfarmer · Mar 7, 2015

Since they went to the digital signal, zero. If I wanted to spend the $$ to put up a tower and new antenna, I could get 3-4. Instead, I have netflix, and avoid commercials.

Dell (WA) · Mar 7, 2015

Greg.......while TV signals are "line of sight", you can be too close to the antenna and be in a hole like a doughnut. Back in 1958-9, I was the FCC Licensed station engineer for Ch #10 and it was my job to keep the transmitters tuned so the gold and silver mining towns in Colorado could receive TV. Some of the towns in the mountains could only receive TV in about a 300 yard wide spot reflecting off CLIFFS. It was a 4-day job that I worked 12-hrs per day at $5/hr. I stayed in a boarding house. Miss Jackie shure made delicious yeast rolls that made mouth watering sandwiches to carry in brown paper bag. .......nostalgia Dell, now why am I hungry?

onefarmer · Mar 7, 2015

Can you get the 17's? I get em pretty good, Anything 8 has 10 has too, both nbc, so don't pay much attention to it. Comes in 50/50. 13 is the same way only 30/70.

Mike (WA) · Mar 8, 2015

We are smack dab in the middle between Portland and Seattle- about 90 miles to each. When TV went digital, Jdemaris posted a website that would tell you how many digital channels you would get, given your location. I had 3- two of which were the same, all were PBS repeaters.

Our Dish gets considerably more.

jimg.allentown · Mar 8, 2015

Amplifiers are only good if there is enough undistorted signal to amplify. On a degraded signal, amplification will not help. It is different with digital than it was with the old analog signals. A weak or distorted signal got you a snowy or weak picture. With digital, it is either there or not. Not much in between.

RCP · Mar 8, 2015

I have over 75 feet of coax and I was hoping to use an amplifier to overcome the signal loss.

Rich

Leroy · Mar 8, 2015

I don't think there are as many channels avaible total in the 100 mile radious around us if half of them would even be avaible as some of you claim you get. Northwest Ohio.

rrlund · Mar 8, 2015

Ya,I get 13,17 and 41. 41-2 has radar and NOA weather. I'd lots rather have that than the channel 8 entertainment stuff.

buickanddeere · Mar 14, 2015

I would go back to the outside antenna in a minute if I could get ride of the dish.

Owen Aaland · Mar 14, 2015

We could get five channels when there were analog signals. Now that it is all digital we get zero, well there are two that cut in and out, mostly out. Looking at an internet site that shows what the area should get for signals it shows 15 within mileage range. Of those 8 are not available and the other 7 are listed as very poor.

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