Good morning! I just wanted to say that over the air antennas can be found for just under and over $20, they work inside your house, not on the roof. Of course there are more expensive models but we have the lesser antennas and they work great.
https://www.amazon.com/HDTV-Antenna-Amplified-Television-Detachable/dp/B01FUB4ZG8
This website is one that can tell you what channels you can get at your location.
https://www.antennaweb.org/
I have this one mounted in my attic. It works great in rural Tennessee.
“This BTW is the very same company (Nexstar) that owns the NBC station here in our market”
Doesn’t your local NBC station have weather forecasts?
We live close enough to the transition towers that an indoor antenna picks up all the local stations so we were able to cancel our cable contact.
Not because of the FCC, but because it will push more people to obtain information from alternate sources. Local weather information is some of the easiest to find on the Internet.
Local radio stations are usually quite good on weather, although I cannot speak for the radio stations in your area.
Search the internet for "DIY 4-bay bowtie antenna". The bowties are bent 19" #12 copper wire. You can place this contraption on a piece of hardware cloth-clad plywood for a reflector to gain signal strength.
The materials are cheap and it works well.
“They’re choosing to place financial considerations and the bottom line above the needs of their viewers.”
Why don’t you just make an offer to the station’s owner and buy the TV station and operate the station in pubic’s best interest?
Doesn’t sound idiotic to me. If they can make money on their TV “news” (which is usually a loss leader only done to get “community benefit” points with the FCC) not streaming it that’s good business. And any TV “news” is a complete waste of time. Has been forever, you’re better off not watching.
I am an old cable exec.
The problem you are complaining about is the result of the retransmission consent rules that were passed by Congress in the 1990’s. The intent was to prevent a major market local broadcaster from putting a smaller market TV station out of business.
It has nothing to do with the cable operator or the larger TV station; but rather the smaller market station is “flexing” to maintain their market share.
In the olden days we would import Boston and Hartford stations into out Western MA systems. These stations would carry better news and sports. But once the law passed, local operators signed agreements with all of the networks and bam! No more Boston channels.
Thank your Congress critters for this one. It’s a 25 year old rule that sucked from the start.
If you have a Roku, there is a free app you can get on there called Haystack. You can access KFOR-TV on there according to Google. Easy to use and free free free!
I can pick up Nexstar channels from all over the country for free using my Roku device. The Roku was an initial price of $40 to purchase and it works through my existing internet service.
Remember I said Nexstar was discontinuing their live streams of all of their TV station's newscasts on their websites and apps? well, apparently one company has found a way around it.
I'm watching Mike Morgan right now as I type this.
Hopefully this live stream won't be taken down. Thank you BNO News!!!!!!!