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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Is over the air TV still a thing where you live?
In the Netherlands, I think you can count all OTA channels on one hand nowadays.... even the analog cable network is becoming smaller and smaller. If you want more than 25-ish channels or so, you'd better have a digital settop box....
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Broadcast television stations are available on cable but still transmit (digitally) over the air. I don't know what would happen if an over-the-air station wanted to convert to cable access only, although I suppose it could be done.
A substantial number of Americans still use antennas -- such as me.
I use a Wineguard Sensar III antenna, very similar to the
Sensar IV except the III uses AC household power and the IV uses 12 Volt mobile home power. I pick up Philadelphia stations, which are about as far away as an antenna can reach (Antennaweb puts them at about 52 miles). The only station we have trouble with is Channel 6 (6.1, 6.2, and 6.3) which is also the only station that stayed on the VHF band.