Prewar 1939 TV, General Electric Television

This 1939 table-top TV was and is attached to a radio to get the sound. The 3 push-buttons below the screen could tune any of five then-existing TV channels or frequencies between 44 - 90 MHz. It bears the model number GE-HM-171 and was made to compete with the RCA TT-5 table-top TV that appears briefly in this video. The console TV, RCA TRK-5 shown briefly to the left, appears in another video on You Tube. The General Electric owned TV Station WRGB broadcast experimentally and then commercially before and during World War II from Schenectady, New York. Please search the website "Early Television Foundation" for more information on this and other TV sets as well as early broadcasters.