So I'm setting up my antenna on my TV the day we cancelled our cable service.  First try out of the gate, the channel scan found one channel.  Was it a local news station?  Of course not.  Public television, so we can watch Sesame Street and Antiques Roadshow?  No way!  The one channel I have been able to tune in is the Home Shopping Network!  Great.  Who needs the weather report or some educational programming for the rugrats when this beautiful, rare lapis ring the size of a soup can could be mine if I call in the next four minutes and fifty three seconds... fifty two... fifty one...
    So, back to the store for an amplified antenna after a call to the manufacturer suggested it (due to all the trees in my area).  The new one still yielded the same results until I dug deep into the TV settings, finding something deep in the menu that was set on cable instead of antenna.  I'm now the proud owner of 17 FREE channels!  Yippee!

CL