Local news story on TV collector

[Phil Nelson]

This popped up on local TV news last night.

http://www.king5.com/video/eveningma...ml?nvid=398746

Lightweight, like most such bits, but kinda entertaining. I kept wanting the camera to quit returning to the cheap stuff and show more of his collection.

Phil Nelson

[dreyfoos]

Nice story - great collection. Thanks for snagging it for us.

Roger

[zenithfan1]

Wow, that was cool. Thanks for posting it. I'd like to get on tv and talk about my tvs someday.

[truetone36]

I wish they'd shown the TRK-12 a little more.

[newhallone]

My favorite part was the last line "We don't do too much of that."

[freakaftr8]

That was a really cool clip! Always nice to see us collectors and restorers and our sets getting some recognition..

[Sandy G]

Even tho what they mainly showed were fairly common sets-Barring the TRK, of course-still...DROOL, DROOL, DROOL !!!

[Eric H]

Neat, a few minor quibbles tho, a "1946" Pilot? 3 inch, originally sold for $300?

A "1954" Hallicrafters 7" (must have meant T-54?), one of the few sets to have channel one after the war? Huh?

[zenithfan1]

Originally Posted by Eric H

Neat, a few minor quibbles tho, a "1946" Pilot? 3 inch, originally sold for $300?

A "1954" Hallicrafters 7" (must have meant T-54?), one of the few sets to have channel one after the war? Huh?

I caught that too Eric, but a cool vid nonetheless. But, you'd figure that guy to know his stuff, maybe he was nervous around the camera and messed up some facts. Happens to me sometimes.

[Sandy G]

Virtually EVERY time I have seen or read a story in a newspaper or on TV that it is something I know about, there have been "little" errors like that in it. Newspapers & TV, IMHO, do an especially LOUSY job getting details right, at least that's been my experience w/them. OK, maybe we're nit-picking, but still..

[kx250rider]

What's so unusual about that, is that he's a relatively basic collector, but has the TRK-12!!!! I don't know anyone with a prewar set who isn't a bigtime collector. Heck; I've been a TV collector/restorer since 1979, and I've only ever owned one prewar set. And that's of literally 1000s of 1946-early 50s sets which have passed through my ownership at some point.

Charles

[Phil Nelson]

Mistakes are inevitable. They send out a "reporter" with a cameraman and pick the best sound bites. Today the same airhead is covering the petting zoo at the county fair.

If you have ever been on the other side of a story, it's kinda chilling. I was interviewed for TV once many years ago and it was almost comical how badly they scrambled the truth. I was nervous and had no time to prepare. The reporter was even younger than me. There's no time for fact checking. They went on the air an hour or two after they filmed me.

To this station's credit, at least they showed a second or two of the guy fiddling with a capacitor on his workbench. Viewers shouldn't come away with the idea that you just drag these things out of a closet and they magically work.

Phil

[electronjohn]

Thanks for the link! Guy should join VK.

[bgadow]

My avatar came from a small newspaper article from a few years back. The "interview" lasted maybe 2 minutes. The blurb had a mistake or 2. Later I lent one of my sets to a local museum and they had all kinds of errors. I felt bad sense they had gone through the trouble of making fancy placards to put around it, and the facts were all wrong. The worst was that I had told them the set was among "the last this company made". The sign said it was the very last TV made in America! In the end I felt as though nobody really cared what the sign said, people visting the museum don't know anything about old TV sets and you can tell them anything you want...not my way of doing things.