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Old 06-08-2020, 08:00 PM
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Originally Posted by oldtvman View Post
WTMJ, back in the sixties and seventies, I worked at an RCA distributor and put up the largest antenna we had in an effort to pull the Packer games out of TMJ and WISN, from South bend, that was quite a trick, sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't
Back in 1972 when Franco Harris had his "Immaculate Reception" as the Pittsburgh Steelers played the Oakland Raiders at Three River's Stadium, the game was blacked out on local Pittsburgh stations so we had many stories where people had to use their outdoor antennas and/or rabbit ears on their old sets in the attic to watch the game from WJAC, channel 6 from Johnstown, PA
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