"What is blocking my tv antenna?"

Of all the DU threads I've linked to, this is probably the most beautiful and zen-like in a minimalist, outsider outsider art kind of way or something:
I use an antenna which gives me 2 network channels. I also get the Maine Public Broadcasting Network. I don't get NBC. Q is this... does anyone know why a solid, black "box" keeps covering the screen? You can still hear the program and see around the perimeter of " the box" but that is it.

Why would an antenna be blocked?.... Anyone?
Let the speculating begin.