Some people are doing this because of economics. Others because of service issues. In the case of satellite, it's because satellite is offering only local stations in SD rather than HD.
And for those in Logan, Hancock, Hardin, Henry, Mercer, Paulding, Shelby, Van Wert, Wood, & Wyandot there is another issue. Cable systems have dropped WLIO and your hometown stations after several decades of providing us to viewers. Satellite companies will not provide us. So if you want your hometown stations, an antenna is it!
Think this is just something happening around Lima? The following is from a news story in Los Angeles CA.
Southern Californians are rediscovering over-the-air television. Ethnic communities are most actively adopting broadcast TV, according to the Los Angeles (CA) Times. Around 20,0000 Asian-American homes in Southern California switched to over-the-air TV last year (2009). Around 8,000 African-American homes switched to free reception. Among all demographics, Latinos have the highest reliance ib over-the-air reception in Southern California, with around 440,000 homes, about one-fourth of the TV households in that demographic, using rabbit-ears, Yagi, or other types of antennas
The Los Angeles market, the second largest in the United States, has some 70 over-the-air channels, many of them with Asian, or Spanish language content. Not all 70 come in across the entire market, but enough to induce Orange County resident Mike Mahan, who told the Times, he was tired of paying for channels he never watched.
Richard Schneider of Antennas Direct in St. Louis, told the Times his sales have gone "through the roof." Sales tripled since the DTV transition, he said. Antennas Direct now sells around 100,000 units each month.
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