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Dan Slentz
Cable TV-2 - New Philadelphia, Ohio


Inside the control room of Cable TV-2 (production & master control)
Cable TV-2 Studio & Office with Cable Company


Local News weeknights at 5:30 (thru about 1977)

Lots of High School Sports coverage
Program host - Denny Henke


Tower Communications local coverage
A "Flip Card" ID












Remote Production Truck (milk truck)
Very EARLY TV data system
Santa's Workshop studio production
More local coverage (parade, baseball, soap box derby?)
Local Scholar Challenge show
Channel 2 automation view
Local Festival Coverage
Recording a TV commercial
Fire destroyed station
Fire destroyed station
Fire destroyed station



We WILL rebuild!



Early channel line-up (2 thru 13)
Without a studio.. post-fire coverage from a high school gym
(Dick Hanchette on camera... Tim Tarulli behind camera)
Without a studio.. post-fire coverage from a high school gym
Temporary Control Room in an old VFW (switcher in sink... we're on bartender side)
Temporary studio in dining area of old VFW


Playback note from the boss (Tim)
Program Schedule (from Newspaper)





Program Schedule (from Control Room)
Production Work Schedule


1979 - Rebuilt and Ready!
New Facility at old location
Back to full production!
New Control Room








1980 Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon - in the studio
Santa's Workshop
Santa's Workship
Telethons
Running Camera on the Jerry Lewis Telethon on Cable TV-2 (Dan Slentz - Cam / Dick Hanchette - on air)
Richie & Dick Hanchette on Telethon
Charlie Jones (L) and Dick Hanchette on Jerry Lewis Telethon on TV-2


Dick Hanchette with Walk Dembrowski
ISI Switcher Layout at TV-2
New TV-2 and Cable Company building layout



Another year of the Santa Show on TV-2
McDonald's Scholar Challenge on TV-2
Another year of the Santa Show on TV-2




Program Schedules (from Newspaper)
McDonald's Scholar Challenge on TV-2
Post-fire studio (mostly empty)
Post-fire control room (right after moving in in 1979)

Cable TV-2 (in early/mid 1980's)


Tim Tarulli hosting the Cable TV-2 Morning Show
Jeff Sprankle in the control room of Cable TV-2
In the late 1980's, the cable company needed more space and did a remodel. TV-2's studio shrunk and moved, while the control room was built onto the back of the building. This would be the last layout of the station as part of the Cable Company. On the purchase of the cable system by Time Warner in about 1997, they pulled the plug on local origination and leased the channel which ultimately moved from channel 2 to about 1003.


Last Cable TV-2 logo
Forum: A Catholic Perspective set at Cable TV-2 (one of the last local shows shot in studio)


Cable TV & Cable TV-2 building in the late 90's
About the last control room. It did have an update to replace UMatic with Digital S
and switcher replaced by a Grass Valley 110. Audio updated to a Mackie 1604.

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