Do you have any old experiences with small town TV?

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Today with networks and syndicated TV shows and infomercials, it seems like there's very little local content on TV stations outside of major markets. Forty years ago, I went to college outside Harrisburg, PA. There was a CBS affiliate nearby, channel 15. The first few years of college there was an older guy on the station who seemed to do almost everything on the air. He had a kids show in the morning, followed by a morning interview show, he did commercials, and in the afternoon he did the news. The year we had a good basketball team, he was the announcer for the TV broadcasts. The station was robbed the summer before my senior year and when we came back to school the guy was gone. We joked at the time that he must have robbed the station since he seemed to do everything else. I've heard some other quirky stories about other TV stations, like one in Montana where for a traffic report they asked the cameraman how much traffic there was driving into town. Do you have any stories to share about small tomw TV?