{"id":18478,"date":"2016-04-21T06:15:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T10:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=18478"},"modified":"2016-04-21T09:20:59","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T13:20:59","slug":"will-notes-first-moderately-priced-tv-manufactured-in-quantity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/will-notes-first-moderately-priced-tv-manufactured-in-quantity\/","title":{"rendered":"Will notes: first moderately priced TV manufactured in quantity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_18479\" style=\"width: 1002px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Television-TV-Nostalgia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18479\" class=\"wp-image-18479 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Television-TV-Nostalgia.jpg\" alt=\"Television-TV-Nostalgia\" width=\"992\" height=\"719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Television-TV-Nostalgia.jpg 992w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Television-TV-Nostalgia-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Television-TV-Nostalgia-768x557.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Television-TV-Nostalgia-414x300.jpg 414w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 992px) 100vw, 992px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18479\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(AP Photo\/Ed Ford)<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> reader, Will Jones, who writes:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>This <span class=\"il\">television<\/span> set [above], retailing for $100, is reportedly the first moderately priced receiver manufactured in quantity. Rose Clare Leonard watches the screen, which reproduces a 5&#215;7 image, as she tunes in at the first public post-war showing at a New York department store, on August 24, 1945.<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Although <span class=\"il\">television<\/span> was invented prior to World War II, the war prevented mass production.\u00a0<\/em><em>Soon after the war, sales and production picked up, and by 1948, regular commercial network programming had begun.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Thank you for that bit of history, Will!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Will Jones, who writes: This television set [above], retailing for $100, is reportedly the first moderately priced receiver manufactured in quantity. Rose Clare Leonard watches the screen, which reproduces a 5&#215;7 image, as she tunes in at the first public post-war showing at a New York department store, on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,305,288,554],"tags":[5002,3298],"class_list":["post-18478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-slightly-off-topic","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-4O2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29223,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/new-crosley-exhibit-at-voa-museum\/","url_meta":{"origin":18478,"position":0},"title":"New Crosley Exhibit at VOA Museum","author":"Thomas","date":"November 18, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dave, who shares this article by John Kieswetter at WVXU: Maybe you have one of those refrigerators with a TV screen built into the door\u2026 Or you like reading news stories from TV\/radio stations on your tablet or phone\u2026 Well, WLW-AM founder and Cincinnati\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Articles&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Articles","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/articles\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/VOA-Bethany-1-1-1024x678.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/VOA-Bethany-1-1-1024x678.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/VOA-Bethany-1-1-1024x678.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":20853,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/brazilian-dx-heard-in-oxford-uk-with-venerable-sony-icf-2001d\/","url_meta":{"origin":18478,"position":1},"title":"Brazilian DX heard in Oxford UK, with venerable Sony ICF-2001D","author":"Clint Gouveia","date":"August 27, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi there, I thought I would share some Brazilian\u00a0shortwave catches with you, obtained using my Sony ICF-2001D receiver and 200 metre experimental longwire. 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This very interesting near 12 minute video shows Sony manufacturing plants. 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