As chairman of the Appropriations Committee he successfully forced the TVA to properly reimburse landowners whose property was taken over by the TVA for such purposes as dam building.

Expecting the Valley's electric power needs to continue to grow, TVA began building nuclear reactors as a new source of cheap power.

The TVA helped bring new industry to the area.

* TVA brings new business to Decatur through the military, and energy management in the 1930s.

Several Businesses have opened on the property including, a new Food City grocery store, Five Guys Burgers and Fries, Bojangles, TVA Credit Union, AT & T Store, Pizza Hut, and a tanning salon to name a few.

Alternative secondary education is provided by Trent Valley Academy ( TVA ), a new school which opened in a £ 25 million new building on Corringham Road in September 2009.

In 2003, TVA began to broadcast Star Académie, a Québécois version of a French reality music competition, several new artists including Marie-Élaine Thibert, Marie-Mai, Émily Begin and Stéphanie Lapointe became well-known music artists after their passage in the reality show.

As part of its plans for Sun News, Groupe TVA submitted an application to the CRTC to replace CKXT's licence with a new three-year Category 1 specialty channel licence for the news channel.

He is dissuaded from contacting the authorities by Charlie Davidson ( Steve Carlisle ), a realtor who does not want the new arrival to discourage the Tennessee Valley Authority ( TVA ) from establishing a new reservoir in the area.

TVA management objected vehemently to Allen's proposal, stating that it violated provisions of the TVA Self-Financing Act of 1959 which required all of the agency's power operations to be self-financing and unsubsidized, and would further dissuade new large customers from moving into its service area as opposed to adjoining areas where they would not be subject to such a scheme.

The thermionic vacuum arc ( TVA ) is a new type of plasma source, which generates a pure metal and ceramic vapour plasma containing ions with a directed energy.

By the 1950s most of the best potential dam sites in the United States had been utilized and it became increasingly difficult to justify new dams, but government agencies such as TVA, the Bureau of Reclamation, and the Army Corps of Engineers continued to construct new dams.

In August 2011, Doucet was hired by TVA Sports, a new sports television channel which went on the air a month later, as the play-by-play voice of the Toronto Blue Jays.

With the new dam extension planned, TVA received authorization for a fourth 32, 000-kW generator.

Groupe TVA launched a new 24 / 7 high-definition channel on November 1, 2008, and removed one SD channel.

* 1981 – of radioactive coolant leak into the containment building of TVA Sequoyah 1 nuclear plant in Tennessee, contaminating 8 workers.

Opponents, such as Dean Russell in The TVA Idea, in addition to condemning the project as being socialist, argued that TVA created a " hidden loss " by preventing the creation of " factories and jobs that would have come into existence if the government had allowed the taxpayers to spend their money as they wished.

Electric rates were among the nation's lowest and stayed low as TVA brought larger, more efficient generating units into service.

However, black leaders said that poor whites and blacks had lived and worked together in the area long before TVA came into existence.

TVA considered the creation of recreational opportunities along its reservoirs a priority, and reservoirs such as Norris Lake and Chickamauga Lake have since grown into hunting and fishing meccas.

This dam is now operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority — the only dam which it currently operates directly which is not on the Tennessee River or a Tennessee River tributary ( although the dams on the Cumberland River system which are owned and operated by the United States Army Corps of Engineers are integrated into the TVA power system ).

Crossing into Johnson County, the Watauga River is first impounded by the Tennessee Valley Authority ( TVA ) Watauga Dam, creating the Watauga Lake.

The Watauga River near Valle Crucis, North CarolinaJust below Watauga Dam on the Horseshoe section of the Watauga River is the TVA Wilbur Dam, an impoundment which forms a much smaller but very deep reservoir known as Wilbur Lake that releases approximately of discharged water back into the Watauga River during the summer months.

The TVA was established in the view that the Federal government ought to bring cheap hydroelectric power into rural areas which had not access to it.

The dam's opponents cried foul, but the bill nevertheless passed the Senate and was signed into law, allowing TVA to finally close the dam's gates.

In 1964, following the opening of CBVT, CFCM disaffiliated from Radio-Canada ( the French language arm of the CBC ) and joined the loose association of independent stations that evolved into TVA, while CKMI remained with CBC.

In 1942, TVA received approval to build a dam -- at the time known as the " Fort Loudoun extension "-- across the mouth of the Little Tennessee River, and divert the water via canal into the Fort Loudoun Reservoir.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the funding bill into law on September 2, 1960, and TVA began building the dam on September 6, 1960.

Thus to the extent that traditional abdominal exercises ( e. g. crunches ) or more advanced abdominal exercises tend to " flatten " the belly, this is owed to the tangential training of the TVA inherent in such exercises.

A Tennessee farmer would not take advice from an official in a suit and tie, so TVA officials had to find leaders in the communities and convince them that crop rotation and the judicious application of fertilizers could restore soil fertility.

TVA and V broadcast in French and are available over the air only in Quebec ( and some communities in Ontario and New Brunswick which are near the Quebec border ), although TVA is available across Canada on cable.

However, in 1998, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission made it compulsory for all cable systems in Canada to carry a TVA station, in order to give Canada's francophone minority communities a second French-language programming choice.

Only four national over-the-air television networks are currently licensed by the CRTC: the government-owned CBC ( English ) and Radio-Canada ( French ), French-language private network TVA, and a network focused on Canada's indigenous peoples, APTN.

The Tennessee Valley Authority ( TVA ) is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression.

The TVA revitalized a vast area of ruined rural America by building dams to provide cheap electricity.

TVA spent two decades trying to fix a leakage problem that had plagued Hales Bar since its construction, but after continued leakage, and after it was determined that expanding the dam's navigation lock would be too expensive, TVA decided to replace the dam by building Nickajack Dam 6 miles ( 9. 7 km ) downstream in 1968, flooding the Nickajack Cave.

In the 20th century, Franklin County benefited from the flood control and power generation activities of the Tennessee Valley Authority ( TVA ), built by the President Franklin D. Roosevelt administration during the Great Depression.

The largest flood in Chattanooga ’ s history occurred in 1867, before the Tennessee Valley Authority ( TVA ) system was created in 1933 by Congress.

Norris was built as a model planned community by the Tennessee Valley Authority ( TVA ) in 1933 to house workers building Norris Dam.

The city design was developed by TVA staff, who loosely based their design on the English garden city movement of the 1890s.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) complained repeatedly ( in 1934, 1935 and 1938 ) about racial discrimination by TVA in the hiring, housing and training of blacks.

The original city hall was located in an old TVA dormitory on Ridgeway Drive until 1978, when it was destroyed by a fire.

Harrison Bay State Park, the Hamilton County Landfill, Bear Trace Golf Course, a course designed by Jack Nicklaus, and Skull Island, a recreational area owned by TVA, are all located in Harrison.

Only CBC / Radio-Canada, TVA and APTN are officially considered national networks by the CRTC, while V is a provincial network in Quebec.

The river has been dammed numerous times, primarily by Tennessee Valley Authority ( TVA ) projects.

TVA is by far the most watched network: in Fall 2006, it held 28 % of the Quebec francophone primetime television audience, compared to Radio-Canada's 19 % and V's 14 %.

Nearly all television is owned by five companies: the federally-owned Société Radio-Canada, Groupe TVA, Astral Media, Remstar, and the provincially-owned Société de télédiffusion du Québec.

The network is currently owned by TVA Group, a publicly traded subsidiary of Quebecor Media.

Although TVA is a full-fledged network, its network feed is basically a retransmission of CFTM, with opt outs by local affiliates for local news, commercials and locally produced programming.

In early 2005, TVA confirmed to The Globe and Mail that it would continue to look for other expansion opportunities in English Canada, although as of 2008 no further purchase announcements have been made by the company.