FREE TV (Rt 66 Lebanon MO)
You could get BOTH channels at the Munger Moss Motel when this sign went up in 1955. The local CBS and NBC affiliates also shared the rump ABC network. The joke was ABC stood for "Almost Broadcasting Company."
Those early sets got all three colors: black, white and grey. And it snowed year-round in TV-land. That was a given, because the stations came in over-the-air from Springfield, almost 50 miles away.