The oldest TV I have at this time is a 14-year-old Zenith Sentry 2 19" table model; the newest, a nine-going-on-ten year old RCA XL-100 CTC185A7 19" table set. No room for vintage sets or consoles, as I live in a very small apartment, although I do have a collection of small table model and portable Zenith radios.
I agree with Andy as far as the severe lack of anything really worth listening to on AM and FM radio goes. There is nothing much to listen to on radio here in my area near Cleveland, either--most of what's on AM is syndicated talk, sports and other non-music programming. Even AM740 (formerly CHWO, now CFZM) in Toronto, which used to have big bands and standards, has changed its format to something it calls "Zoomer Radio", whatever that means. This leaves me with precious little to listen to on my AM/SW Zenith TransOceanic Royal 1000, and leaves the AM broadcast band on every one of my AM/FM sets (and my stereo system; I don't even have an AM antenna connected to it) largely unused.
Commercial FM is even worse. Cleveland is the home of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and somehow that's given almost every radio station in the city the idea that they must play nothing but this noise 24/7. The only classical music radio station in Cleveland, WCLV, moved its transmitter to a location some 50 miles west of the city several years ago, and its dial position from 95.5 to 104.9 MHz at the same time. The station reaches all northeastern Ohio well enough, but it is unlistenable in all of Lake County because of a very strong country-western station just 0.2 MHz down the dial at 104.7.
The only really good quality listening on FM in this area anymore is that area of the FM broadcast band from 88 to 92 MHz. There is an NPR station about 60 miles southwest of me that plays classical at night; the signal is relayed to my area (Lake County, Ohio) by a translator, about ten miles from me, on 89.1 MHz. There is also an NPR station in the city of Cleveland, but it plays jazz after dark, which I don't care for. A station at 91.5 MHz, WKHR-FM, is owned by a school district about 20 miles south of here and plays big bands/standards, much as AM 740 used to. WKHR has an incredible coverage area (probably 60-70 miles or more) due to its very high elevation in Geauga County, Ohio and is also available over the Internet at
www.wkhr.org.
I don't watch much broadcast TV either. I downgraded my cable to basic service (local channels only) a couple months ago, and am using the money I am saving over the cost of standard cable (about $40 a month or so) to buy DVDs of the shows I watched 20-30 years ago or more; I also have a subscription to Netflix. I also have a sizable collection of VHS videos, mostly of old TV series and movies, though I do have a couple of professionally-recorded travelogues (both taken in the Phoenix, Arizona area and the Grand Canyon) and several old movies as well.
I don't care to and will not get a flat-panel TV any time soon (although I have been strongly tempted to do so after seeing the low prices [in one case well under $200--the price range I mentioned in a previous post] in ad flyers, etc. for some 19" FPs), especially after having read in this forum that CRT sets still produce better pictures than FPs--even at this stage of the latter's development. For this reason, I will keep and use my RCA and Zenith sets until they go belly-up (which may not be for quite a while, as both sets work amazingly well for their ages); then and
only then, as I have mentioned in at least one previous post, will I even consider buying a flat-panel.