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No TV in Poughkeepsie?!
- Thread starter BMR
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Poughkeepsie, Kingston, Liberty, Kent CT, etc. are all stuck in a vortex of being too far from NYC to have dependable TV signals and too far from the next market to get TV signals from those cities. I suppose if you lived on a hill and put up a very good TV antenna on the roof with maybe a rotor to move it, and an antenna booster in the line between the antenna and your TV, you could pull in signals from NYC. But that would be an investment few people make these days with cable and satellite TV services available.
We have a cottage 100 miles north of Boston, and about 35 miles from Portland ME and from Manchester NH. Luckily the people who owned the cottage before us invested in these items in the days before there was satellite and before cable was available in this small lakeside community. So we do get NBC and CBS from Portland and we get ABC from both Mancheseter and Portland in the daytime, plus PBS from Durham NH and Ion (for what that's worth) from Concord NH. At night we sometimes get the Boston NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS and Fox stations if conditions are right. But if we didn't have the rooftop antenna with the rotor and antenna booster we would have almost no TV at all.
These days with Digital TV, the signals have improved greatly over analog. But we depend on that rotor to adjust the antenna positioning just right. If not, we'd get hash. For stations that are distant, a slight movement of the antenna can mean the difference between getting the station and getting no signal at all One day I tried just using rabbit ears and I only could get the Portland NBC station with some trouble and hash from the Portland ABC channel. All the other channels were non-exitstant.
Gregg
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We have a cottage 100 miles north of Boston, and about 35 miles from Portland ME and from Manchester NH. Luckily the people who owned the cottage before us invested in these items in the days before there was satellite and before cable was available in this small lakeside community. So we do get NBC and CBS from Portland and we get ABC from both Mancheseter and Portland in the daytime, plus PBS from Durham NH and Ion (for what that's worth) from Concord NH. At night we sometimes get the Boston NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS and Fox stations if conditions are right. But if we didn't have the rooftop antenna with the rotor and antenna booster we would have almost no TV at all.
These days with Digital TV, the signals have improved greatly over analog. But we depend on that rotor to adjust the antenna positioning just right. If not, we'd get hash. For stations that are distant, a slight movement of the antenna can mean the difference between getting the station and getting no signal at all One day I tried just using rabbit ears and I only could get the Portland NBC station with some trouble and hash from the Portland ABC channel. All the other channels were non-exitstant.
Gregg
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Funny, I live on a hill I just North of Poughkeepsie (ground elevation about 475' ASL), have a good roof antenna and rotor, and antenna pre-amp, and yes I get very good NYC reception. I do not get WNBC-4 or WABC-7 due to interfering stations, but all the rest of the full power stations make it quite well, and the new low power HSN "60" is right on the edge... don't get it all the time, but it is in sometimes at night. Some of the "U's" are so strong, they are watchable with the antenna aimed in the opposite direction toward Albany. WNET-13 is probably the weakest, and most prone to summertime interference, but I am quite surprised that I also get WNJB-58 (NJN) better than 13, yet it's farther away. Also Albany TV is generally very good, along with some Connecticut, the best being WTNH-8 (ABC), WEDH-24 (PBS) and WVIT-30 (NBC). Connecticut stations are the closest but also the weakest; the terrain is not good.Gregg said:
As far as locals go,we have five channels of TBN with WTBY-54. And then there's WRNN-48, which is a hodgepodge on the main channel of infomercials, "Inside Editon", "Frazier", local public affairs talk, and overnight Jewelry channel. Two subchannels give us "Mega TV" (Spanish) and a Korean channel. Definitely wouldn't miss these local stations if they went off the air for good.
When I first came to Poughkeepsie back in 1993, they had WTZA (channel 62) which was a TV station in Kingston, NY. They had some good programming on the station where they had movies and cartoons during the afternoon. Poughkeepsie had one TV station which was channel 62. By 1994 or 1995, it was replaced by an All News Channel and TZA until 1996 when it becomes RNN.
When I lived in the Glens Falls area in the early-mid 90s, I was a bit far for Albany or Plattsburgh TV, so cable TV was pretty much a necessity there... AFAIK Glens Falls isn't even an Arbitron market anymore (merged with Albany I think? I see Glens Falls stations rank sometimes)
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