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Originally Posted by JB5pro
After looking at Hazel's set again I see it must be a remote as it has no channel selector knob.
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That set could well have been one of RCA's top-of-the-line color consoles for 1965 with remote, power tuning, the whole nine yards. Those TVs did not have manual channel selectors on the front panel, although most if not all motor-driven power-tuning systems (not just on RCA TVs) did have a manual selector on the back of the set in case the motor drive failed for any reason.
BTW, NBC was telecasting nationwide in full color by the mid-'60s. I well remember the announcement they used just before a color program began and while the peacock was fluffing its feathers: "
The following program is brought to you in living color on NBC." The network also had localized versions of that announcement for its owned stations in New York, Chicago, Cleveland (at that time), Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, to be used when those stations were telecasting local programming in color (I mean actual locally-produced programming such as NBC-owned [at the time] WKYC-TV's acclaimed
Montage series in Cleveland and public-affairs shows the likes of
Open Lines, decades before infomercials). Many color TVs of that period also had color indicator lamps on the front panel near the channel selector, which illuminated when the station to which the set was tuned was telecasting a color program--not unlike stereo indicator lights on stereo FM radios (the small red lamp on the panel of the Zenith MJ1035 in my avatar is the stereo indicator). There were several variations of the color indicator as far as front-panel appearance went; some sets, particularly Motorola, had the color light behind a multi-color lens, while RCA had its color indicator mounted (on some roundies of the '50s) so that it illuminated the three color controls on the set's front panel when a color program was on. I don't recall when that started or ended, but it must have been in the '50s as my 1964 Sears Silvertone 21" roundie, a CTC12 clone, did not have such an indicator.