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Originally Posted by Jeffhs
I'm not familiar with the New York City metro area, but I would think that there must have been farmers living in semi- or totally rural areas of Connecticut and New Jersey for whom that program was intended. For many years in the '60s through the '80s or thereabouts, before 24/7 TV became the norm, channel 3 (WKYC-TV, NBC) in Cleveland telecast, in very early-morning hours (after sign on at six a. m. or so) a short farm-news program, the title of which escapes me as I write this. This program was also intended for farmers within the station's viewing area; since channel 3, like all Cleveland television stations (three at that time, channels 3, 5 and eight), covers 17 counties in northeastern Ohio (including many rural areas in outlying counties), there were, without a doubt, more than a few farmers tuning in to get the latest agricultural news while they were having their breakfast or getting dressed before starting their work day in the fields.
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I know some of their signals go on into Northwest PA as well so there is al ot of rural areas there plus I remember when I drove through Andover, Ohio, there were a lot of farms there. I asked a young kid working on a tractor, about 15 for directions and he called me "sir" and my mother and her friend, "ma'am," he was so polite, it was so refreshing. BTW, from Jamestown, PA, I was able to hit a Cleveland repeater on 147.090 Mc using 2.5 watts into a 5/8th's wave antenna mounted on top of my 1994 Ford Explorer. That areas has three areas overlapping it, Cleveland, Youngstown and Erie stations but I think Youngstown takes the lion's share since that was the closest major city.
02-04-2010, 07:03 PM
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