fine whine

I was a copy editor in high school and college, and now at work I have to find problems with both computer drawings and manufactured garments. Evidently I have an eye for detail. I can't really help it, but I notice a lot of little things. Anyway, so tonight I'm watching Die hard 2 and just around the 1:20:10 mark somebody turns on broadcast channel 3 in the skies over Washington D.C. and the screen shows a classic episode of the Simpsons, the one with the whole family hooked up to electroshock chairs and ultimately zapping each other. Now I'm no TV trivia buff, but to my knowledge the Big Three had monopolized all the low numbers, at least in the TV markets I'd lived. Of course a simple web search turned up WTTW, Fox channel 5 for Washington D.C.

So much for the low numbers theory. However, I still have to wonder if WTTW's been around since 1990 on channel 5, or if the Fox affiliate was in fact channel three thirteen years ago, a channel unassigned now. Do I care? No. But I have to admit that I looked this much up.