I don't know where you got your idea that the transmitter for a station had to be close to i'ts home town, but out in the west there are dozens of exceptions to the "rule".
Southeastern NM has 3 primary stations, CBS and NBC homed out of Roswell and ABC used to be homed out of carlsbad, but now a satellite of an Albuquerque station.
The two Roswell stations have transmitters some 35-40 miles east and southeast of Roswell and the Carlsbad station has a transmitter 35 miles north.
The primary reason being that these stations cover thousands of square miles over sparsely populated territory covering 10-12 towns with populations from 100 to 35,000. By centrally locating the transmitters they can cover almost the entire area (an 80 mile radius) with three VHF stations.
In larger population centers it makes sense to locate transmitters near the home city, but in sparsely populated areas transmitters are locatedto purposely cover as many viewers as possible. Locating transmitters in any one city in southeastern NM would deny any coverage to most of the rest of the population.
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