Service Electric is a group of affiliated cable television companies serving eastern Pennsylvania and western New Jersey, United States.
[1] The company was started in 1948 in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania by John Walson, who owned a General Electric appliance store.
Walson was interested in selling television sets through his store, and solved the problem by building an antenna on top of the mountain overlooking the town.
[4] The company's Lehigh Valley system operates Service Electric Network (SEN), a local origination cable television station.
In 2008, Service Electric Network began carrying home games of the Lehigh Valley IronPigs, the AAA-level Minor League affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies.
[6] Service Electric Network also carries home games of the Lehigh Valley Phantoms, the AHL affiliate of the Philadelphia Flyers.