In my country during the Communist era (1963), the first 100-ish TV owners in a tiny river valley town were pissed about bad reception. The Communists obviously didn’t want to appease the richest few but they allowed this to go through if the TV owners personally built the tower for free, mostly on Sunday mornings. Thus, the Alexandrovka lookout tower’s ruins were restored and heightened, the authorities basically just inspected the resulting structure and installed the repeater equipment. Source (Czech, obviously)
In my country during the Communist era (1963), the first 100-ish TV owners in a tiny river valley town were pissed about bad reception. The Communists obviously didn’t want to appease the richest few but they allowed this to go through if the TV owners personally built the tower for free, mostly on Sunday mornings. Thus, the Alexandrovka lookout tower’s ruins were restored and heightened, the authorities basically just inspected the resulting structure and installed the repeater equipment. Source (Czech, obviously)