CBS selling that process sounds like a very, very wise business decision to me. Paley would live to see RCA crumble and be parted-out while his company kept trucking along.
Motorola always struck me as a company with some real smarts, but no concerns in the end about having the best performing TV on the market. Their tube-chassis color sets seemed to have been designed to a price point more than a quality level. Might be interesting to hear what the resident Motorola engineer has to say about that