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The cable system in Mahanoy City became a sister company to Service Electric Cable TV & Communications, taking the name Service Electric Cablevision and serving Birdsboro, Hazleton, and Sunbury. John E. Walson, eldest son of John Walson, ran Service Electric Cable TV, Inc. for 38 years until his death in August 2012.
Based in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, Walson worked for Pennsylvania Power & Light before starting a General Electric franchise out of his home in 1945. He founded Service Electric in 1948; the family-owned cable television provider services Pennsylvania and northwestern New Jersey. Walson is widely considered to have invented cable television ...
It is claimed that the first cable television system in the United States was created in 1948 in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania by John Walson to provide television signals to people whose reception was poor because of tall mountains and buildings blocking TV signals. [7] Mahanoy City was ideally suited for CATV services, since broadcast television ...
Service Electric Network (Greater Lehigh Valley, including parts of Warren and Hunterdon counties in New Jersey) Service Electric Cablevision (Birdsboro, Hazleton, Mahanoy City, and Sunbury and surrounding areas. Blue Ridge Cable TV13 ; WYLN-CD/35 W09DB/9: Berwick, Pennsylvania (WYLN-CD translator)
Oct. 30—A 15-year-old Mahanoy City boy is charged with attempted homicide after he allegedly stabbed a 20-year-old man in the diaphragm, liver and lung. The incident occurred Thursday, according ...
Elon Musk apparently has one last battle to wage with outgoing Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler. Musk disclosed on his social media platform X that the agency is demanding ...
Sep. 15—MAHANOY CITY — A borough man was arrested by Mahanoy City police after an incident occurred at 30 S. Ninth St. around 4:35 p.m. Sept. 5. Patrolman Derek Weicikosky charged Joseph R ...
[24] 2.2 million people subscribed to C-band service requiring 6-foot dishes costing as much as $1,500; this number remained steady, while digital satellite service with 18-inch dishes experienced phenomenal growth, reaching 4.5 million subscribers by the end of 1996, up by about two million subscribers in a year. Cable television services had ...