![]() Three of the sitcoms we grew up watching, featuring black actors as leads, get the hour-long block treatment on Antenna. These include the award-winning All In The Family, Barney Miller, Dear John (Judd Hirsch vehicle), Doogie Houser M.D., One Day At A Time, and Family Ties. They also offer the anthology series, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and a great many sitcoms that took on societal or moral problems. Spin City, Suspense, and Serious SitcomsĪntenna offers the John Ritter comedy Three’s Company, PLUS its rarely-shown spinoff series, The Ropers, and Three’s A Crowd. ![]() Both offer terrific entertainment value, with music, skits, interviews, monologues, animal visits, comedy sets, and more. (The 1962-72 episodes, sadly, were not archived.) If you like funnyman-lead chatfests, you’ll also find Jack Benny‘s show, too. The post-1980 hour-long shows air weeknights, with the 1 hour, 30 minute version of 1972-80 airing on weekends. Today’s introductory OTA spotlight is ANTENNA TV, available in over 3/4 of the United States.īeginning January 1, 2016, Antenna began airing episodes of Carson from the ’70s-’90s. ![]() In 4 upcoming January posts we’ll shine a light on a few of these networks, a beginning “A-B-C” sampler. Unlike the major broadcast networks we grew up with-like ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS-these new networks, largely broadcast on sub-channels, tend to be genre-themed. These can be “grabbed” out of the air, with a simple $20 digital antenna you can buy at any retailer that carries basic electronics. Part of the return of free tv most surprising to those of us who recall life before the advent of satellite and cable, is the renaissance of OTA (Over-The-Air) stations.
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