[QUOTE=wa2ise;3135056]Looks like Binghamton NY was about half that distance. Don't know about the early 60's, but when I lived in Binghamton in 1980, there was a channel 12 there, and a few UHF channels.
I remember two Binghamton stations, channel 12(NBC) and channel 46(PBS). My grandfather told me those were the only two stations they received, and that was with a large antenna on the roof. By the early 1970s they had what we would now call "basic cable", fed into the set via RF cable and directly tuned with the set's tuner. So, channels 2-13. Besides getting the two Binghamton stations mentioned the cable also provided the four Syracuse networks stations, WPIX, WOR, WNEW in NYC. Those last few were crucial to my budding film buff education, as it seemed every major holiday the New York stations would run various vintage film marathons. Copious amounts of Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies, Our Gang shorts, Laurel & Hardy, The Marx Brothers, the Universal horror classics of the 30s/40s. I think we saw "March of the Wooden Soldiers" with Stan & Babe every year! We lived in Schenectady up til 1972, then 3 years near Milwaukee. So from 1975-1982(a move to NE Virginia) my siblings & I would wallow in vintage B&W classics. In 1973 my grandparents bought a new RCA 23" console, B&W, with tubes. That tuner turret couldn't hold up to the frequent "spinning the dial" routine my grandfather gave it when switching between ball games during commercials. So in 1981 he bought a 25" Zenith Chromacolor set that lasted longer than either of them. Gramps pulled a Hemingway the next year, two days after Christmas. My grandmother died in 1993. By the way, we didn't get cable in any form at our house til my dad went off for a week of Army National Guard duty in January 1983. I deviously pre-planned an appointment with Time-Warner in Reston, VA to install cable as soon as he left the house! So our 1979 RCA ColorTrak & 1962-ish Magnavox finally gave us a "window to the outside world"! Dad was pleased once he got used to all those cable stations, but really peeved at my "subterfuge"
