My reception has never been as bad as yours, was almost always good, just lacked in number of channels. Unfortunately I still don't have cable or anything, so I mostly watch repeats of Everybody Loves Raymond, King of Queens and That 70's Show lol

I know what you're saying about the age thing. When I use to wake up in the morning on Saturday (now I'm a lazy college student lol) when I was like 18, I would still watch some Power Rangers or Yu-Gi-Oh or something lol.