The Old and the New in TV

This home shows an interesting progression. Near the peak of the roof is an Alliance Antenna Rotor on a mast. The antenna is missing but the base is still there. One of the two lines that connect on the back roof is phone, the other cable. And on the lower roof there is a satellite dish. Mt. Holly had cable TV in the early fifties, long before any other nearby area. It was a CATV, Community Antenna TV. The tower was on the mountain above the town which sits in a bowl that makes TV reception dicey. I helped take down one antenna on a building in this town that was over 60 feet tall – on top of a one story structure. This antenna on this home got at most four channels with acceptable pictures WGAL (8), WHP (55 now 21), WTPA (73 now 27) and another channel that was on 27 that has disappeared.