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There's more wrong with the story. The whole plot is out of a sci-fi movie as we have neighbors and friends noticing the slightly odd behaviour of buying something their friends didn't need and... calling the authorities? What do you imaging the police would say if you tried reporting that your friend just bought dog food without a dog?
Even if everyone involved was narc'd out to the cops, and it was investigated, how would you get a funnel shaped pattern?
The station broadcasts in all directions, and the only people affected would be those that bought the rigged TVs. There's no way that the people who needed a new tv and bought a rigged set would also just happen to all live in locations leading to a recognizable pattern, let alone one pointing to a broadcasting station. And it was the tv's that created the effect, not the broadcast, so it doesn't matter what the pattern points to.
Discounting intuition, imagin the amount of detailed inventorying that would have to be done to realize that all houses had a brunswick tv. You don't know what's going on so you have to inventory all environmental, social, psychological, physical and geographical factors and compare them all.
The investigators examined the device and discovered that it emitted ions. How were they qualified to do this? No one else knew of this effect, so how did they know that this was a problem? The other arguments have already been made. Pure techno-babble.
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