TV channels & antenna towers in Silver Lake, North Carolina

With roughly 5,600 residents, Silver Lake is a town in North Carolina. Our map shows 20 licensed TV transmitters inside a 70-mile radius: 6 full-power and 14 low-power. Based on each transmitter's power, antenna height and distance, 16 are likely to arrive at fair strength or better, and 11 at good or strong strength.

15 of them are within 25 miles of Silver Lake, 2 sit 25 to 45 miles away and 3 are more than 45 miles out. Five of the 6 network stations in range are licensed to Wilmington, so most of the network channels you will find here come from Wilmington's stations.

The strongest network signals here are NBC on channel 6 (WECT), Fox on channel 26 (WSFX-TV), CW on channel 3.3 (WWAY), ION on channel 35 (WPXU-TV), Telemundo on channel 31 (WTWL-LD) and MeTV on channel 10.2 (WILM-LD). No ABC affiliate is listed within 70 miles; the nearest one in our data is WCTI-TV in New Bern, NC, 74 miles to the northeast. No CBS affiliate is listed within 70 miles; the nearest one in our data is WBTW in Florence, SC, 82 miles to the west. Spanish-language viewers can pick up Telemundo (good signal). 2 full-power stations in range have no network listed in our data; these are typically public television, religious, shopping or independent stations.

Point your antenna W, at about 266°. The main network towers for Silver Lake sit in that direction, so a single directional antenna can pick them all up.

Three network stations, WWAY, WECT and WSFX-TV, transmit from the same tower site about 16 miles west of Silver Lake (266° W). Point at that site and a single antenna setting picks them all up.

Of the 4 full-power and Class A network signals that reach Silver Lake at fair strength or better, 75% arrive from the west; the rest are spread across one other direction.

All of the main network towers are within their radio horizon as seen from Silver Lake, so signals arrive fairly directly and a well-placed antenna should hold them steadily.

The farthest main network tower for Silver Lake is WSFX-TV (Fox), 16 miles away with a good estimated signal. That is why we suggest an indoor antenna here. If you only watch the closer stations, a smaller antenna may do.

WQDH-LD is only 2.4 miles away with a strong signal. Signals that strong can overload an amplifier, so start without one and add it only if distant channels are missing. Read when an amplifier helps.

With 16 stations at fair strength or better, Silver Lake ranks 328th of 465 places in North Carolina: fewer than the typical North Carolina town (19). Its nearest major network tower is 3.3 miles away, against a state median of 23 miles.

19% of North Carolina's cities and towns get the same recommendation: an indoor antenna. The nearest larger city is Wilmington, 5.6 miles away.