For one hundred weeks that started in October, 2025 this podcast is going to recall the “Top 100 Milestones in the First 100 Years of Television and Video.” The Countdown is pegged to culminate on September 7, 2027 – the 100th anniversary of the day television was invented.
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In 1947 Ed and Grace Parsons, the owners of a radio station in Astoria, Oregon, attended the convention of the National Association of Broadcasters in Chicago.
It was Grace who saw her first television set there, and persuaded Ed to purchase one and bring it home to Astoria.
The only problem was: Astoria is 125 miles from stations in either Seattle or Portland, that were beginning to broadcast TV.
The solution? Put an antenna on the highest roof in town and distribute the signal via coaxial cable.
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