[Jeffhs]

I knew someone in my hometown years ago whose family had one of those fabulous 3-way Curtis Mathes TVs. They never had any trouble with it, that I was ever aware of, and they had it for years. The one time I remember seeing the set on, it had a very good picture, even with off-air signals from a big antenna with a rotor (that was all we had in the '60s and '70s--cable didn't come to our area until the early '80s). Don't know whose chassis it used, but whatever it was, it worked great! I think CM, like everyone else in color TV's early years, used RCA chassis, the CTC-12 through CTC-15 series, in their sets (rebranded, of course) and they were all roundies.

I don't recall ever seeing any CM sets that used Magnavox chassis, although it is possible they may have switched from RCAs to Maggies in the '60s or even the '70s. One poster here said that some CMs used the Magnavox Star System chassis, which date back to the late '70s. This could very well have been, but having seen only the one set (which was probably made in the '60s) I can't be sure.