In my opinion Zenith made the best televisions of all time. At least through the 1980s. They were awarded a patent for the first remote control for televisions about 1957. From there the competition had to wait and take some time before they could come *even* close with Zenith when it came to quality and consumer options. The television photographed is similar to models produced by them from the early 1970s through about 1982. From then, channel selection was via a LED readout...although that may have been an option prior to then. These old Zenith televisions were really hard to kill. It is a shame that today's modern technology did them in well before their time. Sears contracted with Zenith for many years to provide them with "Sears" brand TVs. All that was different was the TV's nameplate. Otherwise all Zenith inside and out. I was very fortunate to get a free well-working Zenith 19-inch from Craigslist a couple years ago. It was manufactured in 1982 and works like a charm with brilliant color and sound, rivaling today's technology....

Albeit being a bit smaller than todays high-tech sets, I will always prefer the old-school CRT televisions that were built with the finest quality (in my opinion) in the days when craftsmanship surrounding consumer electronics was the rule. Thus these units rather over-built to rival the competition for longevity which (to me) certainly was a manufacturers' goal/virtue that certainly came to reality to those who owned these things (like me) to realize that.

For a view of a very similar early 70s Zenith 19-inch CRT set I regularly use...day in, day out...go to YouTube and you will see the same television in the music video "Family Man" by Hall and Oates (1983).

The forementioned and the 1974 television had a vertical row of channel numbers that lit up with small incandescent (pilot) lights when the selected channel was clicked upon. As mentioned above, about 1982-83 a channel readout via a small rectangular LED screen atop the right-top side of the set became optional or standard, replacing the vertical row of backlit incandescent lights that indicated which channel was selected.