Sears Roebuck TVs made by RCA

[AUdubon5425]

Sears Roebuck bought 50% of Warwick in January 1958. Whirlpool wound up owning 57% or Warwick in 1966.

In December 1976 Whirlpool sold the Warwick TV business, along with its Sears contract, to Sanyo. At the time Warwick planned to continue production of electric organs. Sanyo improved the Forrest City, Arks. factory and added 1000 workers to the 300 or so still employed at the time of the Warwick sale.

In short, Sanyo's purchase of Warwick was about the only good story amongst slews of sell-offs and factory closings in the 70's & 80's.

[rcaman]

Originally Posted by Glenn Waters

I have a Sears & Roebuck Color Television made 1984. The back states that the console was manufactured in the USA from components made in Japan. The Model is 564-49100450 The address is given as the Sears Tower, Chicago Illinois. My friend Dennis at the Radio Forum said set was built by Sanyo back in the days when people still knew how to design good TV's. Sanyo had taken over the assembly plant of Warwick a few years earlier after Warwick literally put themselves out of business by making sets that no one could repair, not even the Warwick engineers. The fact that Sears owned Warwick, and had already been buying some electronics from Sanyo, factored heavily in the changeover.

She works very well for a 26 year old television. Here is a photo of her insides.

I guess you could say this was an American made out of Japanese parts television made in the USA at the Warwick plant.

that set is a sanyo made tv very good sets. and had an excellent picture. steve

[kx250rider]

As RCAman said, Glenn Waters' pic is a Sanyo board...

On the RCA-built Sears, I only know of one model, and it was indeed a CTC-12. Evidently, there was a period of time when Sears bought RCA chassis for their color sets.

Charles

[ctc17]

Where did Silvertone come in here? Or were they their own.

[radiotvnut]

Silvertone was another Sears house brand that was used from the teens, on wind up phonographs, and was finally phased out all together in, IIRC, '71. In it's last days, the name was only used on higher end color TV's and stereo consoles.

[wb2mep]

Originally Posted by ctc17

It seems like there are 3 of these in every Sams folder, yet I have never seen on or had the option to grab one in real life. They must have been short life junk

Those were house brands of chain department stores..
Silvertone, LXI, and SR2000 were Sears,
Bradford was W.T. Grant (made by GE in the 70s),
Penncrest was JC Penny's,
Airline was Montgomery Wards.

[vinljnkie]

I believe that the electronics dept at Sears was Dept 61, hence the LXI line of TV's which is the roman numeral for 61. I used to work for Sears about 20 years ago and I think at the time most if not all LXI TV's were Sanyo's. I didn't work in electronics tho, I worked in hardware.

[Glenn Waters]

I have some videos of the the Sears & Roebuck Color Television made June 1984 made in the USA at the Warwick Plant. I also have one of a very nice Silvertone Console stereo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT5vJ7mV9lk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwbVTH2ppKU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00fhPXmDMmo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzlr6ZppWnI

[holmesuser01]

The TV department at Sears was Division 57.