Bankley, I remember those early TV days as you describe - manually tuning the antenna to get WPTZ from Plattsburg. Do you remember Bird Berdan the Weatherman, after doing the weather he would run off, don a costume and return to introduce the Friday night scary movie on Chiller Theater, occasionally arriving a bit late and missing his cue. I was always reminded of him by Joe Flaherty doing Count Floyd on SCTV.