eyewitness info birth of cable tv

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The town I grew up in (Keene, NH) is in a valley surrounded by hills and mountains that pretty much blocked all TV signals of which almost none were local. We had at the time, early 70's, 2 localish stations, 1 was a repeater of NH public tv and was pretty low power and the other was WRLP 32 which was a repeat of WWLP 22 from Springfield, MA. Keene had cable tv going back to the early 60's because of the lack of receivable OTA signals. With cable which consisted of only channels 2-13 we got all the major network stations from Boston, CBS from Hartford, CT, NBC from Springfield, MA and Another CBS later ABC from Albany, NY. Plus we got a couple independents from Boston and Worcester, MA. We had this 12 channel system until the mid 80's when they finally rebuilt and modernized the system.