Getting local channel?

I live in the city where on earth the only TV choices was any 80$/monthly cable or 25$/month dish so I went beside dish only to find out the Dish didn't come next to local channels. But I'm an NFL enthusiast which means I can't study football on Sunday now...Is in that any other way to bring local channels in need paying a termination fee and getting the cable? Possibly beside an amplified antenna? Are there any other things I'm not thinking of?


Answers:    In most areas of the US you can draw from the local channels for free next to just an antenna.

As to what brand of antenna you need, that depends on your location.

If you affix your zip code and describe where on earth you can put an antenna, you would have a much better shot at getting a correct answer.

You can enter your location at the pattern site below and get a righteous idea of what it would steal to receive over the air (OTA) TV.

An even better road is to ask your neighbors what works for them.

In the last two places I lived you could obtain a very rough and ready cable for about $10/month. This be just the broadcast networks plus a couple of other channel. Cable companies do not advertise these packages. You hold to look for them.

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ZIP code 22801
NFL football on NBC

There are several NBC stations you can try to receive. I suspect that eventually you will want to get digital furrow 32 which is about 37 miles away. If you don't own a digital TV, there will be cheap converter boxes available starting surrounded by Jan 08 for older analog sets..

I'm guessing that a accurate antenna to start with would be something resembling a Channel Master CM 4220. You could add a Channel Master CM 7777 preamp if important. The guys who hang out at the forums down below can probably come up with better philosophy.

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Of all the stations you could receive, solitary one is in the VHF decoration. Analog channel 3 - ABC - in the region of 18 miles at 50 deg. *
All the rest are in the UHF trimming.

As best as I can figure out, NBC broadcasts on:

analog low 21 13 miles at 3deg*
analog channel 29 37 miles at 143deg*
digital subway 32 37 miles at 143 deg*
analog channel 28 6 miles at 120 deg*

*To get hold of better numbers here, enter your exact location at the first two links below.

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