Watch a 1970 Zenith COLOR TV and news broadcast from Chicago!

Here is a 1970 Zenith model A6519P, which uses the hybrid type 12A12C52 chassis. This model has the optional space command 600 Remote control!
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[@Mikej1592]

holy crap, it still gets 1970 weather reports!

[@steve_cdh7324]

r/wooosh

[@MisterMikeTexas]

You're in the Twilight Zone!

[@rtcp2020]

Actually he put KZbin videos.

[@janegrant4396]

What happened to John Coleman? Guess he got tired of ch.7 too.

[@jeshkam]

​@@steve_cdh7324It was a joke, whoosh dude.

[@MrUhwoody]

When TV's were still fine furniture.

[@MrMenefrego1]

amen!

[@kingsknight7210]

for real 😮 you would show that tv off

[@kingsknight7210]

i had a tv like that when i was a kid

[@Synthematix]

Fine furniture? lol plywood and particle board hammered together with rivets

[@inkey2]

I loved it back when TV sets were like a nce piece of furniture....wood cabinets, Now a TV is just another appliance

[@karenroy9045]

Thank you for sharing. When I got married in 1985, I had a floor model console tv like that. It was like a piece of furniture back then.

[@TheVCRTimeMachine]

I would love to watch some old Christmas specials (with the original commercials) on this set.

[@yonkel]

Amazing condition! Thank you for posting! I believe this model was our very first color set in 1970. A few years later, we discovered we could change the channels randomly by jingling the change in our pockets! Drove our dad crazy. Memories. :)

[@42NORRIS]

Nice touch! Showing 1970 programs on a 1970 television.

[@drh4683]

I got it from a friend who saved it at the last minutes of an estate sale, otherwise it would have been junked. There are a good number of collectors that like sets like this, this set can fetch $175+ to the right person.

[@peterbigas.3773]

I. remember. those. tv's. when. I. was. a. kid. back. in. the. 70's. time. goes. by

[@grizzlyer2200]

why.

[@niffuM4205]

Grizzly ER why. what. ? he. is. talking. normally.

[@noskcaj1834]

he. is. having. a. stroke. call. 911.

[@jamesslick4790]

@@noskcaj1834 Too. late. for. 911. 5+. Years. have. passed. 🤔 Likely. a. stoke. victim. would. have. passed. too. already.💀

[@RodBeauvex]

@@grizzlyer2200 Maybe he....watched....too much....Star...Trek...

[@Caban1970]

That weather broadcast is from August 12, 1973.

[@kippd2265]

Antonio Caban My Birthday..in 1987 that’s is.wow

[@jomarz1828]

From back when the neighbors would show up out of nowhere and ask if their kids could watch cartoons with your kids and burgers were served and some soda, them Pepsi cans that looked like a hand grenade, and everyone would get along just fine...

[@rsattahip]

Those were a joy to work on, put the set on its side, pull out the bottom plate and you could access all the components. Zenith televisions really were the best back then.

[@larryshaver3568]

20 years later they came up with a "light sentry" which corrected the overdriven crt issue by adjusting the brightness automatically so the contrast didn't require much if any adjustment. i still have that tv

[@simorrison6409]

Wow I miss those days as a kid. "I'd like to buy the world a Coke, and keep it company, that's the real thing..." RIP 70's.

[@ebayerr]

We got our first color tv in 1968 when I was 10 years old. It was a 25" RCA console without remote. We had been watching a 13 inch black and white. Man.It was like beig at the theater. We got to see the "Wonderful World of Disney" in color!

[@merfwriter]

Aww, it's like going back in time. i feel like i was transported back to the early 1970s. i saw the same program on YT but this makes it feel real.

[@MetalSalvation]

I have a 90's TV that I like a lot, great picture and color...I just wish it had that 70's/80's wooden cabinet frame.

[@RadioHamGuy]

The weather guy mentioned "no Skylab passes" for some time, I can remember going outside and watching the Skylab space station pass overhead very well. It was a very big deal at the time and it was common for weather guys to announce when the passes would be so you could go out and watch for it!

[@summer20105707]

The beauty of a set like this is that they fit in very nicely with any living room that has nice solid wood furniture. Put a small cloth on the top of it and you can use it as a table for putting your family pictures on.

[@Mikej1592]

anyway, this set reminds me of my grandmothers set, an RCA color non remote set. She had it till she passed in 1996. the color went all purple but it still worked, I sold it with the house. I wanted to convert it into a digital set but no money at the time. I grew up watching these type of TV's back in the 1970's when this was top of the line. This being a remote set probably means it originally cost a bloody fortune. Such nostalgia.

[@gsnfan]

It's a beautiful color TV set.

[@Pugslee3]

It would be awsome to watch TV on one of those old sets.

[@TheCRTProductions]

This is a very nice set, boy, if they still made them like this then China would be out of business- they just don't stop working! If they do they are easily repairable (as opposed to trying to fix a printed circuit board in a flat screen). Great demonstration video.

[@kkteutsch6416]

The oled panels will be no repairable, since electronics and pictute panels will be integrated...

[@AltRockLover]

Love it! So does this TV only pick up 70's channels?! I'm pretty sure we had an "Admiral" color tv back then.

[@VideoAmateurLuxembourg]

I have a 1996 CRT Philips with contrast set to maximum. I use it daily and it still works.

[@Bacon7666]

I remember as a kid in the 80s I used to watch Saturday cartoons.sometimes we had to give it a few palm hits to the tv at the top so it would snap out of the black out trance.😄

[@jerrykautz6572]

Excellent, takes me back to when I was a kid. I love it.

[@inkey2]

@nakayle LOL.....i remember tubes getting so hot in a set that it heated the room....and also gave off this wonderful aroma of burning electronics and burning wood cabinet (which was normal). That heavenly pre 1980s TV smell

[@debbutcher9087]

Real nice television set. I'm from the Chicago area and watched alot of channel 44 back in the early 70s on a television similar to that one.

[@sammee6602]

Weather forecasting really has improved since then.

[@newldchappell1]

So have hairstyles. lol

[@sammee6602]

Liked!

[@themovietheatre]

I do like the way of feeding the 1970 TV with 1970's era programming from your laptop.

[@nini1957]

I wish I had one of these again. I miss watching in black and white!

[@KevinPiland]

I like black and white TV’s but not when it comes to video games.

[@larryshaver3568]

that broadcast occurred shortly after WLS-TV started transmitting from sears tower

[@nakayle]

Very clean looking set inside. I had a 1969 Zenith with the space command. It had more tubes because only the IF strip was transistorized. Before that had a 1964 RCA 21" round-CRT with a CTC-15 chassis- all tubes except LV rect. Think this was the last year of the round-CRTs. It also had the 6BK4 HV regulator tube that was later banned for putting out x-rays. In my mom' attic is a 1949 10" round-CRT Philco with a bad flyback-xmfr- no longer available so can't be repaired.

[@steveomusicman6645]

Dr. H Thanks for the tour of the set!

[@pcno2832]

2:54 One thing I really miss from that era were the holders or compartments that they used to provide for all the accessories like remote controls, spindles, and 45 adapters. Without places to put all that stuff, it inevitably gets lost when the set goes unused for a while, and usually isn't found until the set has changed hands. I think the end of that started with late 1960s stereos, which were trying, for better or worse, to seem as much like higher-end components (with their piecemeal approach to convenience) as possible, then spread to everything else. Now, nearly everything has a remote control and almost none have any place to store it.

[@sallygomez8799]

Back when kids were the remote control!

[@MultiTechnicss]

Nice set.. I also had the same chassis on my old 171 Zenith solid state..

[@Chummy57C]

Wondering if and hoping it's a "fine night in ole chi town" tonight! Really terrific video! Thanks for producing and sharing this with us.

[@thecooldude9999]

gotta love that 70's haircut.

[@Captain_Char]

that set had a very quick warm up

[@tuuexx]

these sets ROCK....as a small boy,we couldnt afford a color set. when i got my first jobs,in the early 80,s,i sought out those tv,s we didnt have. my FAVE was this set,or one very close-it had space command,and the other one,also much like this but with the ZENITH ZOOM !

[@sonofsoma]

OMG.. Grew up in the Chicago 'burbs with a similar Zenith Console with a "Command Control" remote. Will always remember how the jingle (sound) of house keys or the tags on the dog's collar would sometimes change the channel on us.

[@jasonthejawman5442]

Zenith made quality Tv's no modern flat screen be playing like the zenith will

[@micronut6082]

That's a beautiful set We had one in our family room

[@deltaray3]

Oh man the memories of being a child with one of these. Probably the color gain was actually more messed with by kids like me. Sorry.

[@Trance88]

Dang! So many adjustments on that TV! Where did you get that video looks like maybe 1974??

[@fluffymacaw933]

I wish they made tvs like this still, just without using vacuum tubes

[@BETTERWORLDSGT]

This is a nice one. I see it was still being made with Tubes I think that time must have been about the end of Tube Models.. We had a 1957 floor model Magnavox B&W TV, That had Tubes. We didn't have Color till 1975. Got an FM Radio in 1972 and that was a real big deal.

[@audubon5425]

Nice set - I like the styling on this one.

[@retrochad]

Looks great! They seemed to be more "in-depth" with the news and weather back then.

[@jomarz1828]

Back when your dad would bring that TV home and the whole neighborhood knew about it the next day...lol

[@stephengreene1856]

Space Command Control.... AWESOME!!

[@crist67mustang]

You turned off just in the moment when he'd gonna say Chicago's news. 😋 Watching 1970 television in November 2022, here in Santiago, Chile SouthAmerica.

[@Bruh..669]

Jesus the inside of that tv looks like it would be a control module for a space shuttle, and yet its still less powerful than a modern day calculator, truly insane

[@nakayle]

People have forgotten how amazing tubes are. It is completely possible to build an working analog TV set without any transistors, IC-chips or solid state components at all. Even the silicon rectifiers can be replaced with 5U4 tubes! Besides being EMP resistant they are much prettier than dark drab chips and can even help heat your house in the winter thereby saving you money on heating bills.

[@kraio-sfu]

What a beautiful television set!

[@TheFRiNgEguitars]

Did I see a Grundig radio in the background? :-)

[@mcm730]

How does one get reception for an old set like this. I have one I’d love to fix up, make a great conversation piece or man cave set,

[@jamesslick4790]

There are ATSC to NTSC converters to receive current broadcast stations. Likewise you could get an HDMI to Composite adapter and an RF Modulator (Or use a VCR as the Modulator). A lot of cable TV boxes STILL put out NTSC (old school signals.) There's lots of options out there.

[@jamesslick4790]

I had a Zenith console of similar vintage (had the same "$ervice $aver Chassis" logo and the same "ad" for Zenith antennas (antennae? LOL.), But it was B&W. It had to have been among the last wood cabinet "floor model" B&W sets.

[@whydidtheballooneatthefox282]

I need one of these! :)

[@albrokenomoney2127]

What a beauty.

[@123demaio]

great set this is there first hi bred set. by 73 they started using tripplers and focus deviders that caused problems\ the set had a focus resistor that was carbon and would open up. This was the best set they ever built

[@larryshaver3568]

I am pleasantly surprised by how good the color still is

[@GaryNolt]

My grandparents had a tv like this.We would go to their house to watch the Macys Thanksgiving Day parade.We called the remote the clicker because it would click when you canged the channel.

[@yaboilemonboi5223]

I thinks it’s my dream that when I get older- you know those people who like an era so much they live there life like there in that era? I wanna do that but I want to live in the 70s

[@MattcitoOficial]

I would have this tv on my living room and a 50s styled kitchen lol and some 80s stuff I'm just 13 and i'm getting a cassette player soon

[@9852323]

Space command. I died! Lol 😂

[@KLM817]

Mine has the space command remote as well. I remember those tabs inside the set. You would turn them one direction and with the remote, it would skip that channel with the remote. The remote has 4 buttons, channel up, channel down, volume/off and a mute. If you muted the tv, you could control the hue control with the channel buttons. You had three levels of volume and on the 4th push, it would turn the set off.

[@walleyrt69]

I remember these like yesterday when I was young.Can you still get parts for these old 60s and 70s sets?

[@drh4683]

Yep, this is the same cabinet as the one I repaired but its a year older. I did sell that one on ebay.

[@claudehauper7629]

I see lots of comments about how TVs were once nice pieces of furniture. If you still desire that look, buy a nice oak or cherry entertainment cabinet for your flatscreen. You might have to settle for a slightly smaller TV in so doing, but most nowadays will house up to 55” sets, which is more than double the size of the 25” CRTs most of us grew up with.

[@TheCRTman]

Beautiful.

[@lawrencecausion8807]

I love history

[@kevinpatrick4408]

It's interesting to see how people watched TV back then.

[@prestoncheapbtheadphoneste3010]

Kevin Patrick together.

[@DTVDragonsTelevisionRevised]

2019?

[@Davids-fb9ub]

It's amazing how back then people worked what they got technology wise to achieve the same results that we have today...looking back. Meaning no HD...no 1000 channels. It was analog and no digital to produce the same result...."broadcasting"

[@sisco0304]

We used to have a old set like this one kind of it would make a cracking noise when it was off we use to say it was my dead grandpa coming to visit my dad from the other side

[@deltaray3]

Wow. Awesome video. For once I really don't mind that someone is taking a video of a video on their TV. ;-)

[@Grymmorgan]

DOOOOD!!! Driving a '70s Zenith with a LAPTOP!!! You rawk the KNOWN GALAXY!!! 8^D Remember the commercials when Zenith's System III came out? The solid state panels floating out of the service drawer like something from Star Trek? Man, I was like, "we live in the FUUUUUTURE!!!" x^D

[@ElectricWizard454]

watching about a 1970 tv on an iphone in 2013; whoda thunkit?

[@coryshelby730]

ElectricWizard454 i'm watching a video about a 1970s zenith TV and I'm watching it on 1970s TV using a adapter

[@OPTIONALWATCH]

Hey drh, thanks for uploading and sharing :-)

[@miguelperez-gb5kr]

i love ABC 7 Chicago news including top story and weather

[@aussiejinjo]

its a beauty

[@ThomasWoolum]

What did you do with this TV?

[@vacuumbed1]

Watching a 1970 TV on my 2019 iPhone.

[@loveplane737]

watching that in my 2018 Oppo A71

[@ernestconnell8087]

That was a bit fancier than ours. We had a 1965 Zenith, with a four button remote control that worked with high pitch sound. I would change channels by jingling a chain from a magic set, which would piss off my old man.

[@RoughJustice2k18]

Tube colour TVs were not common in Australia before 1975. In 1970 almost every Aussie household had a B&W set.

[@elifoust7664]

We bought a SEARS from that year...can you tell me who manufacture it?

[@sepitos1967]

Yup on my zenith console unit with uhf tuner

[@GracielaBuenavida-dn1kz]

Luego de los videos los conserva o los pone a la venta???

[@luisreyes1963]

This must have been WLS-TV before they had the famous news team of Joel Daly & Fahey Flynn. Also, nice vintage TV set.

[@ege1993]

yes how do u watch the old news?

[@luisreyes1963]

Magic. ✨

[@traffety]

Space command remote control lol

[@suzannewillis817]

How did you still get vintage news and weather on this beautiful retro tv?did you have some retro video or something?

[@prestoncheapbtheadphoneste3010]

Suzanne Willis hooked to laptop or vcr.

[@suzannewillis817]

@@prestoncheapbtheadphoneste3010 this one sort of reminds me of one of the two we used to have when I was a kid.both had very beautiful wood grain and one had wooden legs and the other was low to the floor but they both were very wonderful I do miss them.the only wooden entertainment thing we had left was a rca stereo record player with a 8- track on it.at the time the only thing that worked on it was the radio but it was ok even if it was the only thing that really worked we still loved it.i would had to say this had to be a product of the 1970's like the tv's but I don't know what years I was way to little.but than Florence came along and did damage to our house and a lot of things had to be tossed away along with that stereo ,water had got all over it and had swelled the door on it shut locking it in place.I'm pretty sure that it didn't work anymore and we couldn't stay there until whenever if our house gets fixed like a lot of others who were still waiting for their houses to get fixed.i don't even know if it'll ever be fixed.but one of the hardest things I had to do was take that stereo and push it out of the door in the garage with the rest of the other ruin stuff it was very sad.it was like taking a piece of yourself and throwing yourself away with it.

[@jasonpike2619]

I was only 24 then, yeah, wish I could jump into the TV Time Machine.

[@123demaio]

easy set to repair . set has the chroma module in it. Resistors use to open up in the focus curcuit. plays like new

[@Tbolt1000TForLife]

i love old console tvs, i have a 1978 zenith, it needs to be fixed sadly

[@rogeebundy6002]

Had a zenith Just like it

[@creeke_alley]

Do you sell older tv"s also is it possible to mod them to accept HDMI though they are from the past? I am hoping to connect my stuff via HDMI and watch my shos on a 1968 Zenith In living color

[@NorthRiverTV]

As always, a top notch presentation! I've seen the WLS-TV video here on KZbin, but I'm curious how you're displaying it on the TV directly from the laptop. I'd like to do the same with some of the vintage sets I have.

[@Toywithme200]

wow! how do you get the old shows on it?