I grew up close enough to Manhattan to get their stations:
2: CBS
3: There is no 3 - tune to 3 only for playing Pong
4: NBC
5: Independent (great for Brady Bunch reruns)
7: ABC
9: Independent; great for baseball games
11: Independent; watch Star Trek reruns and monster movies here
13: PBS
Luxury! Out here in flyover country we got
CBS
NBC
ABC
PBS
The only independent stations were in Milwaukee.
And in the country, you might not get one or more if the weather is bad. My friend that lives there today still can’t reliably get NBC. Thanks, digital broadcasting!
In places like North Dakota, they usually got
CBS
and a station that ran whichever programs they chose from NBC or ABC
Same here, but we also picked up 4 or 5 UHF stations. That’s where I watched both Roller Derby & Uncle Floyd.
WPIX (11) was the Star Trek Station and WOR have Killer “B” monster movies Sunday mornings and at some point Doctor Who with the 3rd Doctor, I’m pretty sure the 4th Doctor was on PBS.
AFTER reaching around the back of the set and switching the slider switch you installed from “Antenna” to “game.”
Oddly, he would have been less annoying as a Human Child.
The thing is, even in the classic Scooby Doo, Where Are You! days, the gang never acted like true skeptics. They always seemed to approach each new mystery with the assumption that it was a real ghost. They never learned from experience.
Despite it being Old Man Jenkins in a costume in every previous instance, they would always be vaguely surprised and confused whenever they started to uncover evidence of the current haunting being fake: “Wait a minute! Why would a ghost be studying old land grants?!”
Is it just a coincidence the networks were on the exact same channels in Los Angeles? (We got Brady Bunch reruns on 11 and Star Trek on 5, and 9 was Basketball and Hockey) PBS was (and still is) in the UHF backwaters.
In DC, we had a lot of UHF channels, including some from Baltimore. But the “big” UHF channels were Channel 20 (WDCA), an originally independent station, and Channel 26 (WETA), the PBS affiliate. Channel 5 (WTTG) was the main independent channel. It and Channel 20 were where you got the syndicated shows. So I could get ST:TOS (and ST:TAS) on either 5 or 20.
Good Lord! Given the invective, I have to ask, what was so horrible about him?
We got the L.A. Channels, usually, and the San Diego channels. CBS was 2 (LA) and 8 (us); NBC was 4 (LA) and a UHF channel for us, 39. We’d also get English-language stations broadcast from Mexico (XETV).
Indeed. That’s where I learned terms like “ectoplasmic apparition”, from Velma, of course. No one ever says that in the real world. So she apparently thought ghosts as a phenomenon were real, but they never actually found one.
Kind of a weird position for a cartoon to take. What’s the underlying message they are trying to convey? Ghosts are real, but be skeptical? Listen to the talking dog? 
Go to YouTube.
Watch some excerpts.
Bring Peptobismol.
As I understand it, much of Scooby-Doo’s charm was his “scared-y-cat” personality, and Scrappy-Doo’s personality was the polar opposite. He was hated so much that, from what I saw on youtube, they made him a villain.
I’m a few years younger than that, but my impression was that Wesley was definitely meant to be the “kid self-insert” character. The Bumblebee to Picard’s Optimus Prime. Maybe I was not old enough to consider that patronizing yet.
I also thought that they were heading towards “Picard is really Wesley’s father after an affair with Beverly that they both still feel guilty about, compounding Picards already-existing guilt because of Jack Crusher’s death under his command”. But I suppose that would be unlikely in a world where medical check-ups include casual DNA tests.
That might have been interesting.
Or it might have made it a soap opera.
That’s why it didn’t work this morning!
Must be a coincidence, I think.
In the early days of TV, the consensus was that channels 2-6 provided the best reception. Since NBC and CBS were the first networks to put TV stations on the air they gobbled up a 2-6 channel in every major market they could. ABC came along a few years later, and to get their stations on the air ASAP, deliberately applied for Channel 7 in major markets (this also gave them the benefit of being able to standardize technical equipment.)
That makes sense. Thanks.
After a storm knocked out our original antenna, we got a very nice replacement that could be rotated from a little box in the living room. I remember being able to get an ‘extra’ CBS or ABC this way, along with some other PBS stations. We also had a small selection of cable channels; most of my childhood TV memories are of WGN and Nickelodeon. I think there was a ‘family’ channel that had decent stuff occasionally.