John Walson
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John Walson Sr., from Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, invented cable TV in the spring of 1948. The community was surrounded by mountains which blocked nearby the nearby TV stations' transmissions. Walson, a local appliance store owner, placed an antenna on a utility pole on a nearby mountain top, amplified and modified the signal, and delivered it to his store so his display TVs would have good reception. He also delivered the signal to the homes of several customers, creating the first cable TV network.
His descendants now own Service Electric, which is a family owned cable TV provider in Pennsylvania.
