# When would FOX have become available in a typical small town?

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Metro Detroit suburbs definitely had it in 1986 or 1987, but are hardly small towns.

Strangely, I remember it switching to Fox 2 Detroit in 1994, but I can not remember what channel it was on before “Fox 2”.

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