So what do you do with the areas where there is none or very little OTA reception? They are just "no mans land" or are partial areas. The Minneapolis market runs from Iowa all the way to Canada. But once you get out of Minneapolis area you have partial OTA. The northern part of the market is 250 miles away from Minneapolis but is still considered Mpls because the CBS & My (use to be Fox) affiliates have satellite stations there. In that area (Bemidji) you get CBS, PBS and My in digital. There is a low powered Fox and ABC translators still in analog. There is no NBC in the market. The Central portion is just CBS & ABC. Alot of low powered translators either shut down or are staying analog until the end. By our lake house (130 miles from Mpls) we are considered Minneapolis. Duluth is 90 miles NE of us and until 2008 there were low powered translators of the Big 4 about 20 miles away. Now with digital all we get is PBS & CBS and CBS is about 60 miles away (thank goodness its on VHF) My buddy use to get one station OTA and that was Fox. He was in the furthest Eastern part of the Fargo market. All the other stations were 70+ miles away (the Fox station tower was about 20 miles away)
KARE is NBC in your market So NBC does exist