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Show Country Ingenuity Brings Television to Mountains HAZARD, Ky. A little bit of' country ingenuity is bringing tele-i vision 'round the mountain to thei good people of Hazard and other1 small mountain towns of eastern Kentucky. Despite the community's location, in a natural bowl, a situation which normally hinders TV reception, lo-1 cal initiative found the answer to the knotty problem in a combination of hill-top antennae and house-to-house coaxial lead-ins. This gave Hazard reception of .wo stations in Cincinnati and one in Huntington, West Virginia. The nearest of these beams is programs from a distance of 90 airline air-line miles. Ordinarily, a receiver has its own indoor or outdoor aerial. But, because TV signals, like light rays, won't travel through mountains, the people of Hazard built one large tower, which will do the work of many small aerials, on top of a 1000-foot mountain. They carved a road to within two hundred feet of the peak. From the roadway, materials for the tower and antennae were toted the rest of way by hand. The TV cables were run down the mountainside mountain-side from the tower, strung along poles of the local power and light company, and fed into the houses of set owners. i The success of the project caused other towns of the area to try it. TV has come to the mountains. |