Can Navajo Nation families receive television and radio broadcasts?
To a limited degree, depending upon location and equipment. In the last five years it has improved dramatically. Cable Television, provided by Navajo Communication Company (current owner Citizens Telecom) serves only higher populated communities where housing is concentrated. It only offers thirteen channels. Some areas are served by television repeaters that rebroadcast the major networks from New Mexico cities. Arizona television does not reach very far north of Interstate 40. We heard tales of families erecting tall towers and large antennas to receive stations from Utah in the north, but this was rare. The Chinle valley now enjoys an FM radio station and often it is possible to receive a FM station from Farmington. Since Chinle itself is located in a valley, most FM signals that can be received on the rim, travel far overhead as they radiate by line of sight. Before the local FM broadcast began, only the tribe’s AM station KTNN 660, was available to most. Some bible stations that b
