Bryan, I often watch Jeopardy on channel 5 from Cleveland and have never (yet) noticed any discrepancies as far as synchronization goes. That station, like all other TV stations in town (3-5-8-19-23-25-43-55-61), is converting to digital, but even at that there is no problem with sync--none that I've ever noticed, anyhow. Perhaps the trouble is with the local network affiliate you mention. Is that one of the two network affiliates in Salisbury or (if you have cable) one of the network stations in Washington or Baltimore? Seems to me a lot of small-town network affiliates have these problems a lot more frequently than their counterparts in major cities.

BTW, I'm still wondering if you ever saw anything from the channel 36 translator in Virginia that's supposed to relay NBC channel 10 (WAVY-TV in Portsmouth, IIRC) to Salisbury and surrounding areas (including Federalsburg, I would think). I saw a coverage map some time ago for that translator on a listing from 100000watts.com that showed the station as having fairly good coverage into your area of Maryland. Have you ever seen this station on any of your TVs that are not on cable? I would think, considering how small the state of Maryland is or seems to be (it looks awfully small on a map), and by its proximity to Virginia and Delaware, any translator station anywhere near those three states should cover the entire tri-state area with no trouble at all.

Jeff, I'll have to give that 36 a try. I do have a halfway decent UHF only antenna in the attic, aimed south. I'll try it first on my "daily driver" NAP Sylvania in the living room. I have seen a little something on the screen as I was passing through the 30's on the older continous tune UHF sets but I thought it might be the Howard University PBS station out of DC (32). Maybe I can remember to do that tonight. I have seen WAVY before when the DXing was good, but not in some time.

The local station in question is WMDT-47 Salisbury. They are kinda second-rate compared to the other local, WBOC-16. I have also noticed lots of videotape troubles on 47 from time to time. The lipsync will sometimes be off by over a second(or more).

Update: neither the Sylvania nor the little Samsung in the bedroom show anything on 36; I tried the '68 Zenith I just got & you could see a little bit of change in the snow around 36 but that was it. I am curious about that station, where they are located, etc. If it is in "mainland" Virginia & fairly low power this just might be too much of a stretch. Somewhere once I came upon a website listing lots of low power tv stations & was amazed at their numbers. There were quite a few in our area according to the site, though none show up on the screen. There is a PBS translator in the next town, has been for years, but even at such a close distance I cannot pick it up. A TV station that only covers one small town hardly seems worth the effort.