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My first exposure to Radio on the TV was also my first exposure to cable television.

In the early 1970s, a motel in Chincoteague Virginia featured the island's cable TV provider. One station consisted of a b&w camera that swiveled between showing a thermometer, barometer, clock and a written board with the local forecast. It played an audio feed of the island's radio station.

Grade school me was so fascinated by all tech in action, it became a permanent memory.




Hackaday did a story[0] on this type of proto-weather channel.

[0] https://hackaday.com/2022/10/20/retrotechtacular-the-origina...


Dang. That's really cool. I had always assumed this was the cable operator's homebrewed invention.




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