What color TV was really like back then...

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by bgadow

Lipsync? One of the local affiliates has gotten terrible about this. Most nights my wife will watch both Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy & you cannot get through both shows without the sync getting way off.

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.