House abandoned, TV left on...

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That TV chassis is pretty bare. I'm guessing a specially built monitor for use with a closed circuit system. It is spooky!

There must have been a main antenna array connected to a VHF tuner and a distribution amplifier that piped the selected program to all of the monitors. That set is in a dayroom of one of the dorms the patients lived in, so im pretty sure it was used for entertainment purposes. I'm guessing that the staff chose the programming, and tuned the channel via a VHF tuner that was placed before the distribution amplifiers?

Someone who lives in michigan should go and try to recover those old sets. They're just going to be destroyed when the place is demolished. It would be great to save a system like that for ETF or another museum, if most of it is still intact. From the looks of the chassis they appear to be custom jobs.