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Is WBTV (the local CBS afilliate) available to those of us without cable? I figure it should be, since it's a broadcast station (right?) but I cannot find it on my TV with my cool little bunny ears....
Sorry if it's an obvious question, I've searched the forums to no avail. I'm missing good football games and Elf is on tonight!!
Is WBTV (the local CBS afilliate) available to those of us without cable? I figure it should be, since it's a broadcast station (right?) but I cannot find it on my TV with my cool little bunny ears....
Sorry if it's an obvious question, I've searched the forums to no avail. I'm missing good football games and Elf is on tonight!!
Thanks!
dp
Just 2 weeks ago I sold an analog tv during my yard sale, and had to show that the tv worked. So I rigged up an antenna with a hanger and aluminum foil and received WBTV just fine. It is channel 3 and you should still be able to find it without the digital converter.
The real question is, why would anyone want to watch that station?
Well look at the alternatives!!! WSOC, the Enquirer of local news!
WCCB, fresh approach but a little over the top.
WCNC, not what they used to be.
WBTV has some style and class.
As for the signal, I have always had a hard time receiving 3's signal. I'm not sure why that is. The rest of the local stations come in OK, not great but OK.
I'd take WCNC over WBTV any day. Their Panthers analyst once said, "The key to this game will be 1st downs." Thanks Captain Obvious. Then, they kept promoting to this story with the headline " Light rail stops running" only to have this report with a whiny guy complaining because he didn't read the train schedule and got stuck at the wrong station after leaving the bar in the middle of the night.
I'd take WCNC over WBTV any day. Their Panthers analyst once said, "The key to this game will be 1st downs." Thanks Captain Obvious. Then, they kept promoting to this story with the headline " Light rail stops running" only to have this report with a whiny guy complaining because he didn't read the train schedule and got stuck at the wrong station after leaving the bar in the middle of the night.
I guess I'm just a little bit jaded after having watched NY news for nearly all my life. I think the news down here does a good job with the somewhat limited number of topics that make up the headlines down here. The reporters seem to do a lot of ground work traveling over large areas to cover their stories. It just seems that 90% of the news in Charlotte is CMS, crimes, house fires and car wrecks. In NY, the local anchor would always check "upstairs" with Dan, Tom or Peter to see what would be the main story on the Nat'l news that night. I bet that all of the anchors and reporters down here wish they had the equivalent salaries of their NY counterparts. The anchors' salaries here would not cover the tax witholding of the NY Weathermen.
You would never see anthing about high school sports on the NY news - there was just too much to cover!
Good thing that PBS is uniformly excellent everywhere you go!
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