TEXAS CITY
Growing up, Texas City resident Steven Remollino had only three main TV channels — CBS, ABC and NBC. He could get two more Houston independent channels that showed re-runs of shows like “Batman” and “Gilligan’s Island,” but he had to contort the antenna properly to do so.
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