My grandparents had this set until about 1979. It broke and I remember it got sent off for repair. My parents bought a 1980 RCA with digital tuning. Horrible picture. My parents to the CTC48 and I got their 76 RCA console which sucked compared to the ctc48. In 1987, the ctc48 went kaput (probably was something simple). So it got moved to the back porch until we finally junqued it. I begged my parents to keep it because I was going to electronics school next year and I'll fix it myself. No luck. It went bye bye.

Then unfortunately they bought a 27" Sanyo. The age of the Japanese box had come to our house. It was a nice TV, and it's still playing in my dad's bedroom but it just wasn't the same.