Watch a 1970 Zenith COLOR TV and news broadcast from Chicago!
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- Here is a 1970 Zenith model A6519P, which uses the hybrid type 12A12C52 chassis. This model has the optional space command 600 Remote control!
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holy crap, it still gets 1970 weather reports!
r/wooosh
You're in the Twilight Zone!
Actually he put RUclips videos.
What happened to John Coleman? Guess he got tired of ch.7 too.
@@steve_cdh7324It was a joke, whoosh dude.
I loved it back when TV sets were like a nce piece of furniture....wood cabinets, Now a TV is just another appliance
Thank you for sharing. When I got married in 1985, I had a floor model console tv like that. It was like a piece of furniture back then.
I would love to watch some old Christmas specials (with the original commercials) on this set.
When TV's were still fine furniture.
amen!
for real 😮 you would show that tv off
i had a tv like that when i was a kid
Fine furniture? lol plywood and particle board hammered together with rivets
Amazing condition! Thank you for posting! I believe this model was our very first color set in 1970. A few years later, we discovered we could change the channels randomly by jingling the change in our pockets! Drove our dad crazy. Memories. :)
Nice touch! Showing 1970 programs on a 1970 television.
I got it from a friend who saved it at the last minutes of an estate sale, otherwise it would have been junked. There are a good number of collectors that like sets like this, this set can fetch $175+ to the right person.
Those were a joy to work on, put the set on its side, pull out the bottom plate and you could access all the components. Zenith televisions really were the best back then.
I. remember. those. tv's. when. I. was. a. kid. back. in. the. 70's. time. goes. by
why.
Grizzly ER why. what. ? he. is. talking. normally.
he. is. having. a. stroke. call. 911.
@@noskcaj1834 Too. late. for. 911. 5+. Years. have. passed. 🤔 Likely. a. stoke. victim. would. have. passed. too. already.💀
@@grizzlyer2200 Maybe he....watched....too much....Star...Trek...
Aww, it's like going back in time. i feel like i was transported back to the early 1970s. i saw the same program on YT but this makes it feel real.
20 years later they came up with a "light sentry" which corrected the overdriven crt issue by adjusting the brightness automatically so the contrast didn't require much if any adjustment. i still have that tv
The beauty of a set like this is that they fit in very nicely with any living room that has nice solid wood furniture. Put a small cloth on the top of it and you can use it as a table for putting your family pictures on.
We got our first color tv in 1968 when I was 10 years old.
It was a 25" RCA console without remote.
We had been watching a 13 inch black and white.
Man.It was like beig at the theater.
We got to see the "Wonderful World of Disney" in color!
I have a 90's TV that I like a lot, great picture and color...I just wish it had that 70's/80's wooden cabinet frame.
It's a beautiful color TV set.
Excellent, takes me back to when I was a kid. I love it.
That weather broadcast is from August 12, 1973.
Antonio Caban My Birthday..in 1987 that’s is.wow
From back when the neighbors would show up out of nowhere and ask if their kids could watch cartoons with your kids and burgers were served and some soda, them Pepsi cans that looked like a hand grenade, and everyone would get along just fine...
The weather guy mentioned "no Skylab passes" for some time, I can remember going outside and watching the Skylab space station pass overhead very well. It was a very big deal at the time and it was common for weather guys to announce when the passes would be so you could go out and watch for it!
It would be awsome to watch TV on one of those old sets.
Wow I miss those days as a kid. "I'd like to buy the world a Coke, and keep it company, that's the real thing..." RIP 70's.
I do like the way of feeding the 1970 TV with 1970's era programming from your laptop.
Real nice television set. I'm from the Chicago area and watched alot of channel 44 back in the early 70s on a television similar to that one.
I remember as a kid in the 80s I used to watch Saturday cartoons.sometimes we had to give it a few palm hits to the tv at the top so it would snap out of the black out trance.😄
I have a 1996 CRT Philips with contrast set to maximum. I use it daily and it still works.
anyway, this set reminds me of my grandmothers set, an RCA color non remote set. She had it till she passed in 1996. the color went all purple but it still worked, I sold it with the house. I wanted to convert it into a digital set but no money at the time. I grew up watching these type of TV's back in the 1970's when this was top of the line. This being a remote set probably means it originally cost a bloody fortune. Such nostalgia.
@nakayle LOL.....i remember tubes getting so hot in a set that it heated the room....and also gave off this wonderful aroma of burning electronics and burning wood cabinet (which was normal). That heavenly pre 1980s TV smell
I wish I had one of these again. I miss watching in black and white!
I like black and white TV’s but not when it comes to video games.
Dr. H Thanks for the tour of the set!
Love it! So does this TV only pick up 70's channels?! I'm pretty sure we had an "Admiral" color tv back then.
these sets ROCK....as a small boy,we couldnt afford a color set. when i got my first jobs,in the early 80,s,i sought out those tv,s we didnt have. my FAVE was this set,or one very close-it had space command,and the other one,also much like this but with the ZENITH ZOOM !
Weather forecasting really has improved since then.
So have hairstyles. lol
Liked!
Nice set.. I also had the same chassis on my old 171 Zenith solid state..
This is a very nice set, boy, if they still made them like this then China would be out of business- they just don't stop working! If they do they are easily repairable (as opposed to trying to fix a printed circuit board in a flat screen). Great demonstration video.
The oled panels will be no repairable, since electronics and pictute panels will be integrated...
Wondering if and hoping it's a "fine night in ole chi town" tonight!
Really terrific video! Thanks for producing and sharing this with us.
Nice set - I like the styling on this one.
that broadcast occurred shortly after WLS-TV started transmitting from sears tower
2:54 One thing I really miss from that era were the holders or compartments that they used to provide for all the accessories like remote controls, spindles, and 45 adapters. Without places to put all that stuff, it inevitably gets lost when the set goes unused for a while, and usually isn't found until the set has changed hands. I think the end of that started with late 1960s stereos, which were trying, for better or worse, to seem as much like higher-end components (with their piecemeal approach to convenience) as possible, then spread to everything else. Now, nearly everything has a remote control and almost none have any place to store it.
that set had a very quick warm up
That's a beautiful set We had one in our family room
Very clean looking set inside. I had a 1969 Zenith with the space command. It had more tubes because only the IF strip was transistorized. Before that had a 1964 RCA 21" round-CRT with a CTC-15 chassis- all tubes except LV rect. Think this was the last year of the round-CRTs. It also had the 6BK4 HV regulator tube that was later banned for putting out x-rays. In my mom' attic is a 1949 10" round-CRT Philco with a bad flyback-xmfr- no longer available so can't be repaired.
Looks great! They seemed to be more "in-depth" with the news and weather back then.
gotta love that 70's haircut.
OMG.. Grew up in the Chicago 'burbs with a similar Zenith Console with a "Command Control" remote. Will always remember how the jingle (sound) of house keys or the tags on the dog's collar would sometimes change the channel on us.
What a beautiful television set!
This is a nice one. I see it was still being made with Tubes I think that time must have been about the end of Tube Models.. We had a 1957 floor model Magnavox B&W TV, That had Tubes. We didn't have Color till 1975. Got an FM Radio in 1972 and that was a real big deal.
I wish they made tvs like this still, just without using vacuum tubes
Back when kids were the remote control!
Space Command Control.... AWESOME!!
I need one of these! :)
Oh man the memories of being a child with one of these. Probably the color gain was actually more messed with by kids like me. Sorry.
Jesus the inside of that tv looks like it would be a control module for a space shuttle, and yet its still less powerful than a modern day calculator, truly insane
Back when your dad would bring that TV home and the whole neighborhood knew about it the next day...lol
Hey drh, thanks for uploading and sharing :-)
You turned off just in the moment when he'd gonna say Chicago's news. 😋
Watching 1970 television in November 2022, here in Santiago, Chile SouthAmerica.
I am pleasantly surprised by how good the color still is
Dang! So many adjustments on that TV! Where did you get that video looks like maybe 1974??
Yep, this is the same cabinet as the one I repaired but its a year older. I did sell that one on ebay.
What a beauty.
Zenith made quality Tv's no modern flat screen be playing like the zenith will
great set this is there first hi bred set. by 73 they started using tripplers and focus deviders that caused problems\ the set had a focus resistor that was carbon and would open up. This was the best set they ever built
People have forgotten how amazing tubes are. It is completely possible to build an working analog TV set without any transistors, IC-chips or solid state components at all. Even the silicon rectifiers can be replaced with 5U4 tubes! Besides being EMP resistant they are much prettier than dark drab chips and can even help heat your house in the winter thereby saving you money on heating bills.
My grandparents had a tv like this.We would go to their house to watch the Macys Thanksgiving Day parade.We called the remote the clicker because it would click when you canged the channel.
It's interesting to see how people watched TV back then.
Kevin Patrick together.
I had a Zenith console of similar vintage (had the same "$ervice $aver Chassis" logo and the same "ad" for Zenith antennas (antennae? LOL.), But it was B&W. It had to have been among the last wood cabinet "floor model" B&W sets.
Wow. Awesome video. For once I really don't mind that someone is taking a video of a video on their TV. ;-)
Beautiful.
Mine has the space command remote as well. I remember those tabs inside the set. You would turn them one direction and with the remote, it would skip that channel with the remote. The remote has 4 buttons, channel up, channel down, volume/off and a mute. If you muted the tv, you could control the hue control with the channel buttons. You had three levels of volume and on the 4th push, it would turn the set off.
Did I see a Grundig radio in the background? :-)
DOOOOD!!! Driving a '70s Zenith with a LAPTOP!!! You rawk the KNOWN GALAXY!!! 8^D
Remember the commercials when Zenith's System III came out? The solid state panels floating out of the service drawer like something from Star Trek? Man, I was like, "we live in the FUUUUUTURE!!!" x^D
I thinks it’s my dream that when I get older- you know those people who like an era so much they live there life like there in that era? I wanna do that but I want to live in the 70s
I would have this tv on my living room and a 50s styled kitchen lol and some 80s stuff
I'm just 13 and i'm getting a cassette player soon
We used to have a old set like this one kind of it would make a cracking noise when it was off we use to say it was my dead grandpa coming to visit my dad from the other side
I see lots of comments about how TVs were once nice pieces of furniture. If you still desire that look, buy a nice oak or cherry entertainment cabinet for your flatscreen. You might have to settle for a slightly smaller TV in so doing, but most nowadays will house up to 55” sets, which is more than double the size of the 25” CRTs most of us grew up with.
I love history
i love ABC 7 Chicago news including top story and weather
It's amazing how back then people worked what they got technology wise to achieve the same results that we have today...looking back. Meaning no HD...no 1000 channels. It was analog and no digital to produce the same result...."broadcasting"
I remember these like yesterday when I was young.Can you still get parts for these old 60s and 70s sets?
How does one get reception for an old set like this. I have one I’d love to fix up, make a great conversation piece or man cave set,
There are ATSC to NTSC converters to receive current broadcast stations. Likewise you could get an HDMI to Composite adapter and an RF Modulator (Or use a VCR as the Modulator). A lot of cable TV boxes STILL put out NTSC (old school signals.) There's lots of options out there.
its a beauty
That was a bit fancier than ours. We had a 1965 Zenith, with a four button remote control that worked with high pitch sound. I would change channels by jingling a chain from a magic set, which would piss off my old man.
Tube colour TVs were not common in Australia before 1975. In 1970 almost every Aussie household had a B&W set.
watching about a 1970 tv on an iphone in 2013; whoda thunkit?
ElectricWizard454 i'm watching a video about a 1970s zenith TV and I'm watching it on 1970s TV using a adapter
Watching a 1970 TV on my 2019 iPhone.
watching that in my 2018 Oppo A71
easy set to repair . set has the chroma module in it. Resistors use to open up in the focus curcuit. plays like new
Yup on my zenith console unit with uhf tuner
This must have been WLS-TV before they had the famous news team of Joel Daly & Fahey Flynn.
Also, nice vintage TV set.
What did you do with this TV?
Had a zenith
Just like it
i love old console tvs, i have a 1978 zenith, it needs to be fixed sadly
As always, a top notch presentation! I've seen the WLS-TV video here on RUclips, but I'm curious how you're displaying it on the TV directly from the laptop. I'd like to do the same with some of the vintage sets I have.
Space command. I died! Lol 😂
I watched at least two Zenith TV's that had cable and channels 0 and 1. One had a remote control and the other didn't.
I was only 24 then, yeah, wish I could jump into the TV Time Machine.
We bought a SEARS from that year...can you tell me who manufacture it?
,,did you steal my glasses ?
Space command remote control lol
Luego de los videos los conserva o los pone a la venta???
2019?
we had a 1979 or 1980 black and white zenith floor model 24' tv with dials no remote..my grandmother would never get a color tv.great picture but it only lasted 6 years for some reason.all the other zeniths we had in the 50's to 70's lasted 10 years or more.talked her in to get a color tv after this tv picture went haywire.repairman said it was too much power in cable signal.which wasnt true.took a small tv up it was fine we just got cable then too.he just didnt want to repair it.acted up before
Was looking for the effect given when it's been running all day and turned off that night, where it slowly pinholes up over a few minutes. Nice TV for sure 👍 though, reason for that specific effect it was exactly like what I saw between a 40 mph head on a dream of memories the effect and a yank back to laying across my truck seat.