I live in Northeastern PA and have been in the NY City DMA. Earlier this week I noticed that the providers for NBC and ABC changed to stations originating in Lancaster and Harrisburg PA. Were there changes to the DMA definitions which would have caused this?
No.
This usually means that, for some odd reason, your internet "location" (usually dependent on your ISP), switched DMAs. I live in a DMA border down, and this happens occasionally.
Use one of the geolocation services to find out. I think you can pester them about any discrepancies.
Hmm, are you using your ISP's DNS servers or something else like Cloudflare's, or Google's?
What does it say under Channels DVR server → Support → Troubleshooting?
Thank you all for the quick responses.
Using geolocation.com my ip address is showing quite close to where I am actually located. I have not made any changes to DNS and am using my ISPs DNS servers. Troubleshooting does not show any errors.
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I am looking into the ip address which is being used.
When I use a geolocation service on the web found my ip address as 1.2.3.4 (2 different services used)
but looking at the ChannelsDVR log when I do a TVE channel scan it is using an address of 3.4.5.6. When I plug the address which ChannelsDVR is using into a geolocator it comes back with the same ISP but a location which is 65-70 miles from my location.
How is that possible? Do you have multiple ISPs?
My bad.
I just looked at the dvr logs a bit closer and the 2nd ip address is the address of the DNS server which was used to check during the running of Channels troubleshooting.
After going down the Fox/Pre-release rabbit hole yesterday, I noticed that my ABC and NBC TVE stations moved to stations 2 or 3 hours away. I tried all the Channels troubleshooting tips that I can find and nothing changes back to the correct locals. There has not been an issue with CBS and Fox now shows up correctly. Logging in with my provider on ABC and NBC also brings up the wrong location.
You would need to contact ABC/NBC support and ask them to fix their website to give you the proper feed.
It seems to be an issue with the ISP/ip address.
When I check my geolocation using iplocation.net it returns the location data from 6 different providers. 2 of which have my location incorrect. One of these is the location that ABC is using. It is 3+ hours from my actual location and in a different DMA
This. 
I've had a similar problem on 2 occasions and got it fixed this way.
Luckily, I have good antenna reception for ABC and NBC and an HDhomerun. Just thought it was odd that I had the same issue as OP.
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