TV Brings Trade
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To A Standstill
A television set installed in the Pago Pago store of merchant Sam Scanlan for the inaugura tion of American Samoa’s educational TV programmes brought trade to a standstill on October 5.
Samoans were so interested in seeing TV for the first time that they crowded into the store and prevented service at the Scanlan counters. Eventually and reluctantly, Mr. Scanlan had to turn the set off.
Meanwhile, in Western Samoa’s Radio Department in Apia 90 miles away, the Pago transmissions were received perfectly on a 23 in. television set on loan from Burns Philp, with the aid of a makeshift aerial at Moataa.
After two days, the Director of Western Samoa’s Post Office and Radio, Mr. Ernest Betham, said: “It looks as though Apia will get perfect reception."