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North Adams, MA (November 19, 1964)

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from North Adams Transcript via Newspapers.com

2 WGBH-Edu Boston
3 WTIC-CBS Hartford
4 WBZ-NBC Boston
5 WHDH-CBS Boston
6 WRGB-NBC Schenectady
9 WMUR-ABC Manchester
10 WCDC-CBS Adams
11 WPIX New York
13 WAST-ABC Albany
 
CATV, as it was known then ... Community Antenna Television. How were the Boston and New York stations brought in? Microwave links?
 
ftballfan said:
Kind of odd for WMUR to be carried but not WNAC or WNHC. Was WNAC a much weaker station than WBZ and WHDH?
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Manchester is about 20 miles closer to North Adams than Boston is, as the crow flies. The distance to the actual transmitters of the Boston channels is probably greater than the 107 miles to downtown, since they are located south of the city.
 
Also, until March, 1964, WNAC-7 Boston transmitted from a tower much shorter than that of the other Boston VHF stations.

If the North Adams cable headend was atop a mountain, it may have been possible, with a very powerful antenna and signal amplifier, to pick up the VHF channels from Boston off-air. Until March, 1964, such a headend likely couldn't have received a signal from WNAC.
 
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