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4 unusual facts about Zenith Electronics


Console television

Companies that made these types of television included Zenith, Panasonic, Sony, Magnavox, Mitsubishi, Sylvania, and Quasar.

Zenith Electronics

The station was sold in the early 1970s and is now WUSN.

Zenith was the first company to experiment with subscription television, launching their Phonevision concept on experimental Chicago station KS2XBS (originally broadcasting on Channel 2 before the Federal Communications Commission forced them to relinquish it to WBBM-TV).

The 1955 Flash-Matic remote system, invented by Eugene Polley, used a highly directional photo flash tube in the hand held unit that was aimed at sensitive photoreceivers in the four front corners of the television cabinet.



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