[Reece]

Around this time television was just starting up in a few major cities and people were wary of buying a radio when TV might be just around the corner where they lived. Radio manufacturers put in a phono jack and called it ready for a phono or TV sound: the idea being that if you had a radio you didn't need the audio amplifier in the TV set. It was a way to sell radios to people who were stuck waiting for TV. As it turned out, there were few early TV sets with video only that needed a radio for audio, and the integrated sight-with-sound TV sets quickly took over.