So, what did Zenith do to make their CRT's fail quicker?

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Originally Posted by radiotvnut

In '89, the school system caught up a little when they installed 19" Magnavox sets in all the classrooms. They were used to show a short "news" broadcast called "channel one" every morning and they were also connected to a CCTV system located in the library. I think the TV's were donated by the communications company that produced "channel one". If a teacher wanted to show a film, he/she just had the library feed it to their classroom. I think those TV's are still in use.

We got the same thing at my high school around '91 - Channel One did provide the sets, 19" Magnavoxes on swivel wall mounts. My school did not make use of the CCTV capabilities other than broadcasting Ch. One - we still used the old metal cabinet analog tuned sets hooked up to c.1980 top-loading VCRs on rollaround carts to watch anything else. I do remember we could pick up the local cable channels on the new sets though.

(Channel One rant here)
Our 15-20 minute homeroom period changed, as the faculty was pretty adamant that we watched and paid attention to those stupid (imo) Channel One news broadcasts and their commercials. Personally, I had been watching the local morning news since I was in the 6th or 7th grade and had no interest in these hip, dumbed-down "newscasts." I raised an ethical issue about an archdiocesan school forcing it's students to watch commercials, but the brothers & priests were disposed of by then and, like most everything else with the Church down here, it was all about the money (free TVs.) I wound up using Ch. One as an avenue for humor, cracking jokes about much of their subject material.

I have no idea if Channel One or the sets still exist, as I haven't set foot in my high school in 16 years.