TeleTales #1…Ever See One Of These Before?

On January 17, 2015 - TV History

TeleTales #1…Ever See One Of These Before?

I think it was January of 1954 when RCA introduced this tri-view set. Notice the remote jack box for the ear pieces that gave you isolated audio on the screen you were most interested in. The speakers are in the bottom two panels and behind the top panel is a radio and turntable. They didn’t sell many of these and no, this is not the one LBJ had in his office…that was a custom job. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee

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22 Comments

  1. Michael Haskins September 22, 2015

    How much did it cost?

  2. Scott Comstock January 18, 2015

    Coming from a time when it was a big deal to just *own* a TV, that thing must have been freakishly expensive.

  3. Kent Farnsworth January 18, 2015

    Oh yeah, my dad would have “loved” this: three flavors of chewing gum, an intellectual wasteland, perfect for my son. Interesting a loop of felix the cat was used in early TV … programming was a bitch: still is.

  4. Bob Sewvello January 18, 2015

    Today you would need 200 screens…or a huge video wall.

  5. Rose Gasak January 17, 2015

    It must have been very scarce or my mother would have bought one back then

  6. Jeff Rooney January 17, 2015

    I’ll just watch Felix the Cat…the adults can have the other shows!

  7. Alan Maretsky January 17, 2015

    Or as Evertz called it back then…the VIP3.

  8. Alan Maretsky January 17, 2015

    Aaah….the days when one would get dressed up to watch tv.

  9. Shawn Robb January 17, 2015

    Hi tech

  10. Luiz Marxsen January 17, 2015

    Nordmende Spectra Color Studio, a german TV set from 1967:

  11. Charles MacDonald January 17, 2015

    as a Kid I used to imagine having soething like this, but for the 12 cable channels we got at that time. or at least CBC, CTV NBC, CBS and ABC plus PBS of course.

  12. Tom Ashenbrenner January 17, 2015

    In 1954 they probably thought three screens is all you would ever need!

  13. Patsy Klopfenstein January 17, 2015

    At least they were all in the same room. ..so parents could see what the kids were watching

  14. Catherine Wyler Hayden January 17, 2015

    tv was a huge thing in my childhood. i see it about as healthy as smoking cigarettes.

  15. Brian Kerfoot January 17, 2015

    The idea originally was the ability to watch all 3 Networks at once.

  16. Doug Badgley January 17, 2015

    Not a bad idea.

  17. Bill Golden January 17, 2015

    3 in 1. Cool! 🙂

  18. Gary Walters January 17, 2015

    Weight is one factor. How about the heat being generated by all of those tubes. Hope that would had been well ventilated.

  19. Rick Fazekas January 17, 2015

    I can’t imagine how much that thing weighed.

  20. Don Perkins January 17, 2015

    I’ll bet that setup drew some current!

  21. Brett Gripe January 17, 2015

    Never saw one. Cool 🙂

  22. Rick Bozeman January 17, 2015

    Didn’t know these were sold commercially. We had a version of this at WTVT in Tampa in a conference room.