I am utterly disgusted with my smart TV.
Instead of being able to choose "Antenna" as an input source, there is a "Live TV" app where they are mixing free streaming channels with adds and the online TV guide that only points to these "free" channels, and I cannot find the local over the air channels.
At one point, I was able to disable free streaming channels, and the TV guide, and the over the air channels appeared.
The solution was to turn off the internet traffic to the TV using firewall.
Pacific NW Viking
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2026-02-08 18:15:34 UTC
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