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If the cardboard substrate is fine and the foil is coming in glued you can glue it back down. If it isn't aluminum you can get some copper tape to bridge the gaps...solder it in and tin over it to hide the copper color...If it is aluminum I got no clue how to fix it.
There are almost no low power analog TV stations left anywhere so that antenna probably has no practical purpose anymore unless you won the OTA lottery or run your own low power transmitter(if you do you could move the transmitter antenna closer to the TV antenna).
If you want to run the set off a DTV box you would be better served with a separate indoor or outdoor antenna...the internal antennas on most TVs sucked even compared to the average separate antennas of their time. Most internal antennas in TVs were meant for sets used in strong signal urban areas where you could get good signal on almost any piece of metal you wanted to use as an antenna....the owners manuals of most sets would advise an external antenna in most moderate and fringe reception locations.
There's little need to fix one of these...it is more original if left be and there are better solutions/workarounds than fixing it.
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