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• "I've been into this five years, and I'm still running into brick walls."
• 1939 New York World's Fair.
• The fraternity that Magness had joined, cable TV, got its start in 1948 in response to the demanding wife of a man named Ed Parsons, who owned a radio station in Astoria, Oregon, a small town at the mouth of the Columbia River. At a radio convention in Chicago, Grace Parsons sat mesmerized at a demonstration of anew invention called a TV set, and s...
• People drove from more than 300 miles away to watch.
• The grassroots creation and spread of the community antenna was inevitable, given the situation: a rural population dying to get what folks in the big city got, and a broadcast industry that was unwilling to invest the money needed to reach them. In