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Originally Posted by Mohoender
I was not thinking about TV being popular. That takes time everywhere. As I know my grand father was among the first to get a TV in Belgium and that was 1952 (I think). I haven't checked about the date recently, I think that was the year for the first TV program in Belgium.
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I remember my mother's family had the first TV on the block in 1948. There was only one channel here in Pittsburgh although many shortwave radio and amateur radio enthusiasts did construct antennas so they can receive the station from Johnstown, PA (a small, coal mining and steel town to the east in the mountains) that actually had TV before Pittsburgh. Later on, there were station in Wheeling, West Virginia, Steubenville and Youngstown, Ohio and Newcastle, PA but the last one went dark quick. Everyone flocked to my mother's house to watch TV back then.
Chuck M.