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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 ...
Sep. 1—MAHANOY CITY — Three people are displaced after four homes were damaged Friday after an early morning fire. "It's a total loss," Mahanoy City Fire Chief Daniel J. Markiewicz said of the ...
1948 — First cable television system, Mahanoy City; 1952 — First indoor zoo - National Aviary, Pittsburgh; 1957 — First American commercial nuclear generator, Shippingport Atomic Power Station; 1970 — First African American female Secretary of State, Dr. C. DeLores Tucker, appointed under Gov. Milton Shapp
Mahanoy City (/ ˈ m ɑː ˌ h ɑː n ɔɪ / MAH-hah-noy) is a borough located 38 miles (61 km) southwest of Wilkes-Barre and 13 miles southwest of Hazleton, in northern Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of the Coal Region of Pennsylvania and is surrounded by (but not part of) Mahanoy Township.
The nearest city to Tamaqua is Hazleton, which is 12.5 miles north. Tamaqua is 15 miles (24 km) east of Pottsville , 14 miles (23 km) southwest of Jim Thorpe , approximately 60 miles (97 km) south of Scranton , approximately 95 miles (153 km) northwest of Philadelphia , and approximately 100 miles (160 km) southwest of New York City .
Gilberton is a borough in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States, four miles (7 km) west by south of Mahanoy City.Its population was 583 at the 2020 census, [3] a decline from the figure of 769 tabulated in 2010. [4]