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Originally Posted by Penthode
The 1947 RCA 721 TS is still soldiering on with it's original chassis mount electrolytics. It is coming up to a year and 7 months since my minimal rehabilitation. The axial lead 20ufd electrolytic used for audio output plate and screen bypassing was replaced as it failed my leakage test after reforming. To remind all, two resistors, three tubes, fourteen paper capacitors. Recall I left some of the paper capacitors in if they did not upset any DC levels.
I expect it has close to 1400 hours now.
CHCH TV channel 11 went on air in 1954 and their daytime peogramming in HD are retro programs from the 50's thru the 70's. Oddly, the stations do not multiplex up here probably due to the Canadian media monopoly which favors cable and satellite over terrestrial television. Even the CBC tried to abandon terrestrial TV but failed and only run minimal services over the air.
Anyhow CHCH which appears to be about the last independent terrestrial broadcaster in Canada uses the original 1950's logo mascot. I captured a snapshot off air on the 721TS a few minutes ago with a snapshot from the web.
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Do you get any American TV stations OTA (or are such stations available on cable) where you are, or is it all Canadian? I would think you would get a few American stations there, as most American cities close to Canada will receive at least one U.S. station (for example, in Detroit, Michigan, viewers can get CBET-TV channel 9, formerly CKLW-TV). I mention CBET because it can be received in my area near Cleveland, when the atmospheric conditions are right; the station is also available in Detroit, which has channels 2 (Fox, formerly CBS), 4 (NBC), 7 (ABC), 50, 56 and 62 (the last being CBS; this station took the CBS affiliation from channel 2 some time ago, in the same manner as CBS-TV in Cleveland was moved from channel 8 to channel 19 (!) in the late 1980s; this was a very stupid move, in my opinion, since channel 19 is a UHF station which is not received well in some parts of northeastern Ohio unless you have cable, satellite or YouTube TV).