What year is this RCA?
 

Someone wrote me and would like some info on this set.

The model is 14H 980
It has a phono and radio.

Looks like a CTC-16, so I'm just gonna guess and say 1964 or so. I remember my aunt and uncle having one similar to this one.

I dunno, but me likey....

My RCA Field Service Guide says that the 14H980 (MU,MV,MP) is a CTC 15 (M,L,P)... the "Fairhaven".
jr

O WOW, I have been looking for one of those in a white cabinet forever. When I was a kid I remember ripping the back off one and harvesting the tubes on large item collection trash day. I remember seeing several of the white consoles and today they are super rare.
Thats like a compact combo roundie and it had doors too....ok, I need to calm down....

Yeah, CTC 16's usually have H hold V hold Tone and Contrast tucked under the bezel. Looks like a CTC 15 to me as well.

Definitely it's not a 16; it's either a 12 or 15. That makes it late '61 to '63. Educated guess is that it's a CTC-12, based on the "color" badge at lower left of the screen.

Charles

This set has UHF, so it could be '64, although since a lot of these TVs probably were sold in UHF-only areas, it could be '61-'63 or even a year earlier. Difficult to tell without knowing where the TV was purchased originally.

CTC-12 sounds about right for the chassis. I had a Sears-Silvertone roundie, metal cabinet table model, that was very likely an RCA clone as well, with the secondary video and tone controls hidden behind a flip-down door at the lower right corner of the cabinet. That was my first color set; didn't work so well (convergence was way off, it developed a hum bar and color-sync trouble two years after I got it, and the video PC board cracked when I tried to replace the 6AW8 video output tube), but I learned quite a bit about the workings of NTSC color TV while working on it.

I'd put money on it being a CTC 15, I've seen plenty with that same color badge and control layout.

Agreed. The 12's and down I believe the color plackard just states "C O L O R" with the rainbow effect across the plackard. Newer, starting tith the 15, says "RCA VICTOR COLOR". Like the plackards on my two CTC-17's and the CTC-16 I sold Chris, (the one in my avatar). I miss that set.

The fairhaven
 

The grill cloth identifies this model as "The Fairhaven" listed in the 1964 RCA catalogue. The model was also available in Antique Walnut.

In 1963 RCA produced the first of these models called “The Abbeville”. I owned one for forty three years. UHF was optional in 1963 and I installed the ‘kit’ after purchasing it from RCA Service Company in Pico Rivera, CA.

BTW, anyone has a spare convergence magnet. The holders were made of plastic and one of mine just shattered.

Apparently it does not have remote that my '64 Antionette has according to the model number but the hole looks like it is open for the mike. Non-remotes have an RCA logo over that hole. Mine does not have the optional UHF and it has a CTC-15 also. It looks like the original plastic VHF knob has been replaced with a '65 model knob.
That set has an incredible sound system from what I have gathered.

The Fairhaven 14-H-98M would be a set without remote control. My set "The Abbeville is model 213-H-41R. Notice in the picture below, that with remote control the channel changer on the set is a push button. :banana: