You need a special digital version of the old-fashioned "rabbit ears" to pick up digital TV broadcasts over the air.
You may receive television from local stations via an antenna.
You can if the local TV stations are not to far away, select a VHF/UHF antenna. If the stations are far away, mount the antenna as high as possible. Check with your neighbors that have antennas.
Your best bet it to enter your address into the websites linked below to find out where your "local" stations are and to find out what color zone antenna you require (explained in the sites).
No. t only affects the over the air signals and you local TV stations that require an antenna to receive them.
The antenna is disconnected, the wire is cut, or it is broken, bent, or just bad. Replace the antenna and its wire to the stereo in the dash.
Find out where the local stations transmitter is located and turn your antenna to that direction whilewatching the signal strength meter on screen. An antenna that is just slightly off the correct direction can mean the difference between a prefect picture to NO picture. Go to the web site "tvfool.com for the info you need.
The DTV act making TV stations digital and no more analog channels. Layman's terms: Off air channels, picked up with antenna. "For full-power TV stations, the transition went into effect on Friday June 12, 2009, with stations ending regular programming on their analog signals no later than 11:59 pm local time that day."
If you are located close enough to the local TV stations, just put up a outdoor TV antenna and point it toward the TV transmitter tower.
You can still watch your local news without an antenna, as all satellite packages will carry a local channel listing.
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It depends on what you mean by "local stations". If you're trying to receive one of the major networks, it's because they have gone HD. (High Definition). You would need one of those HD converter box that was sold before the stations went HD. (Remember the government was handing out vouchers for people who did not have cable?). So if it's not a major local station and perhaps it's a smaller station with a somewhat small signal, then it could be the strength of that signal as well.
I don't know where you can find the internet radio stations. You can call in to the local radio stations and they should have that information for you.