There's a thread concerning Asheville, NC. at the moment and it reminded me that we used to get TV station WLOS, Asheville with some excellent or at least very interesting locally produced shows, when I was a child. We also got WBIR in Knoxville, WCYB, and others. All with locally produced shows, usually musical. From Asheville we got the Arthur Smith show, a talented guy who I remember claimed that Dueling Banjos was ripped off from him.
In the tiny isolated town in SE KY that I grew up in there was what must have been an electronics genius there who put an antenna tower high on a mountain and provided the town with a cable system, which was probably one of the first cable systems in the U.S., allowing us to receive stations from many hundreds of miles away. I think his name was Dwight Brown. I remember going into the back of his business as a child and seeing my first oscilloscope traces...
Any recollections about locally produced shows in your part of the country? I'm wondering if it was a regional thing or if it was nation-wide. The good ol' days!
In the tiny isolated town in SE KY that I grew up in there was what must have been an electronics genius there who put an antenna tower high on a mountain and provided the town with a cable system, which was probably one of the first cable systems in the U.S., allowing us to receive stations from many hundreds of miles away. I think his name was Dwight Brown. I remember going into the back of his business as a child and seeing my first oscilloscope traces...
Any recollections about locally produced shows in your part of the country? I'm wondering if it was a regional thing or if it was nation-wide. The good ol' days!