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Old 06-01-2015, 12:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Jeffhs View Post
Why did she even bother getting a TV set? She wouldn't get much of anything as far as TV reception goes, from New York City or anywhere else. I looked up Norwich, New York on CityData.com and found that the town is over 100 miles from the nearest TV stations. Unless her area had cable (which I seriously doubt) or she had a deep-fringe TV antenna, her TV would show nothing but snow on every channel.
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Syracuse (about 45 miles), Utica (about 40 miles) and Albany (about 85 miles) all had TV stations as early as 1954... I suspect that reception would have been pretty good in the Norwich area, with larger antennas needed only for Albany reception.

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