Theodore "Knot" Kunkel, who had a knack for understanding radio, electronics and all the technical angles of our far flung wireless system of communications, has achieved what would be, according to the technical laws of radio, the impossible.  Knot has succeeded in bringing in on his new television set, for the first time in Seguin, very good results in television programs, picked up in the broadcast of the  Houston Television Station.
     Televised programs are not supposed to be heard or seen for more than 50 miles from their place of broadcast, since FM rays and light rays that carry the sight and sound, emitting from the station, go in a straight line and do not bend with the curvature of the earth, as the commonly known AM method of ordinary radio broadcasting.  Inasmuch as Houston is 160 miles or more from here, it is remarkable that a program of this kind has been received at all.  So far as we are able to learn, even San Antonio has never been able to receive a televised program, since the few television broadcasting stations are too far distant.
    Kunkel's explanation for the reception success is that Houston, being much lower in altitude, and Seguin being about the highest point between San Antonio and Houston, is certain that he is in direct line with the rays from the station.  The Houston station has only been on the air a few weeks.  Much of its programming is in a stage of experimentation, Kunkel says.  
    Most programs received are of the sports type, basketball, boxing, etc.  Yet, he frequently enjoys some very entertaining studio presentations of fine music.  Reception, at times Kunkel reports, is fuzzy, but on the whole, the vision is perfect.  Radio Station WOAI is now constructing its television station.  It is freely predicted that by late summer, WOAI televised programs will be received by hundreds of television receiving sets within a 50 mile radius of the station.  Several residents of Seguin are expected to be sharing in this newest home entertainment for this section of the country.
Seguin Enterprise, March 3, 1949