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Jeff, we never had a full-time NBC affiliate. Until 1980 there was only one Salisbury station (WBOC) and they were basically a CBS station, though they carried limited programming from NBC and ABC at times. (mostly sports, I think, but some prime time shows) In '80 WMDT started, an ABC affiliate. In the 80s they also carried some NBC sports programming as I recall. In my memory neither carried things like Today, Tonight, any of the "staples". Where I live you can get Baltimore/Washington with a good outdoor antenna-if your setup is good enough you can get crystal clear reception on analog. Not too far northeast of here you can get the Philadelphia stations. But either would be in the deep fringe area for the Salisbury area and east/south. I've never had the chance to really DX down that way so I don't know what's possible. One of my sets spent its whole life in Mardela Springs, MD, which is in between me and Salisbury-it's an Emerson from about '52 so it predates local TV. Obviously the could pull in signals from the west. One thing that is special about this set is that the VHF tuner has a UHF strip for ch. 16 installed-works well. I'd like to give it one more try before the shutdown-trouble is that the crt is completely, utterly shot. I have a good replacement in the attic. Maybe I can make the swap in the next month or so.
There are places in Delaware where 40/WMGM in Wildwood,NJ comes in well. (I've picked it up here with lots of snow) They're NBC. I'm not sure if this market could have ever supported a third full-time commercial station.
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