Shame there are no local affiliates in the area, the little town of 6000 I am from has a CBS, ABC (was formerly an NBC), Fox and CW.
Yeah, but it's really hard to justify adding more stations when you understand signal reception calculations.
I was recently involved in a successful effort to obtain a local (Pax River area) radio station license from the FCC for a low-power broadcast antenna. I was shocked to see how crowded the air waves are, and how difficult it really is to fit a station into an existing market. Finding a clear channel in your exact area is one thing. But finding a channel that doesn't step on the signal of other stations 100 miles away is another thing entirely. It's all about avoiding overlap, that would steal clear signal from other viewers/listeners at the edges of your own station. First come, first served, and Lex Park is fairly late to the game, as far as major population centers go.
I agree it stinks that we can't get solid signal here, so close to DC/Baltimore/Richmond/Salisbury, but since each of those major markets have a host of existing stations, there's honestly no way to fit any more stations in between all of those.
By the way, TVFool is a pretty good website for viewing actual signal strength calculations.
http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=29&q=id=f1f0fbbf230243
