1957 General Electric Console

[David Roper]

The buttons on the tuner serve two functions: they turn to custom fine-tune each channel and when you push one in, the dial races around until that channel comes to the top and it pops back out. Via remote control, when you press 'channel' the tuner will stop on every channel where there is a signal.

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by David Roper

The buttons on the tuner serve two functions: they turn to custom fine-tune each channel and when you push one in, the dial races around until that channel comes to the top and it pops back out. Via remote control, when you press 'channel' the tuner will stop on every channel where there is a signal.

IIRC, the live channel had to be fine tuned properly, for the tuner to stop, via the remote, which was a wired remote.