RCA Stereo Roundie near Boston but for a price.

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by ChrisW6ATV

...the sound system is independent from the TV's audio section. The selector does not allow the TV to be on at the same time as the stereo system. If I had owned my unit in the early days of music videos (1982-85), I would have modified it to allow simultaneous use. The NBC network had a TV show called Friday Night Videos, with stereo sound on a local FM radio station.

I remember Friday Night Videos on NBC, but never knew until now that the audio was also simulcast over local FM radio. I don't remember seeing anything in the local newspaper, TV listings, etc. at the time as to which of the 20 or so Cleveland FM stations was carrying the show's sound track. Was this done nationally, or only in cities with NBC owned and operated TV stations? If the latter, I am surprised that nothing was ever said about FNV's stereo FM simulcast (that I was ever aware of, anyway) in the Cleveland area, as the NBC-TV affiliate there (WKYC-TV channel 3) was owned and operated by NBC at the time.

Seeing the picture of the RCA TV/stereo combo being discussed here brought back memories for me, as one of my great-uncles had a console exactly like the one shown on CL. The television chassis developed serious problems, however, some years later (I don't know exactly when), so he just took out the old chassis and installed a new (at that time) Emerson 19" table model in its place. Another of my great-uncles had an RCA console with the same chassis; when its TV died, he just took it out of the cabinet and installed a new (at that time) Zenith color table model in place of it. In both cases the jobs had been done so well, IMHO, that anyone would have been hard-pressed to tell these were custom installations.