"All Things TV"---Changing channels

I have wanted to get something off my chest for a long time, and this "working vacation" I am on seems to be the perfect time.

I promise I am not a numbers man, unlike other sports fans, for instance, I rarely remember what number jersey most of my favorite players wear.

It is precisely why when growing up in New York the TV channels seemed so perfect to me.

CBS was channel 2, NBC was 4, FOX was 5, ABC was 7, WWOR (used to have two W's), WPIX was 11, and PBS was 13.

(Ch. 9 went on to become "My 9" and Ch. 11 is now WB11).

Any-whoo...once you start moving around the country a little the "madness" begins.

In my second stop, Salt Lake City, all I can recall is that somehow Ch. 5 and Ch. 13 became network channels...and that's all I can remember.

And that's precisely my point...

I wouldn't even had gone to Sacramento, or stayed there 10 years, had I known that Ch. 13 would be an ABC affiliate or Ch. 3 would be NBC.

Nice try, channel 3, even with the long-time legendary anchor Stan Atkinson, ya screwed up.

Because 3 ain't 4, which is SUPPOSED to be NBC in my world...

And Raleigh, my last stop, well don't even get me started...Fox is on channel 50 and ABC is 11.

It mind-boggling and perplexing, to say the least, but at least it ain't illegal I suppose.

ABC 45 in Winston-Salem, N.C. however....now THAT is criminal!

OK...thx for reading and tty Tues.