We were a Zenith dealer & sold Admiral also in the '70s. A basic 12 inch
Zenith sold for $120. Upgrade models were $10 to $30 more. RCA would
have been the same, only Sony cost more. All others ran from about $80
& up. A 14" Zenith color ( tubes) ran $300 IIRC & when they switched to
13" solid state a little more. A FAR superior set by 10 times IMHO.
Typical family had a 23/25 inch wood console as the main set & maybe
a small B&W or color. If you were well off you had a den set of 19" or 25"
along with a 12-19 inch color bedroom set. The kids got 12" B&W or
some other hand me down set for there rooms. Its pretty amazing how
the prices stayed level during the 70's. Eventually pressure from Japan
& Korea drove prices down. With all solid state sets it was hard to
build a bad set. Even GE, Admiral, Sharp etc came out with good sets
after making mostly junk in the tube days.
enuf fer now
73 Zeno
LFOD !