[Jeffhs]

Dave, I hope you do get that Muntz TV working well. It has been years since I've seen one (until I saw the pictures of the '52 Muntz sets in your post). The last Muntz TV I remember seeing in person belonged to my next-door neighbors in my old neighborhood, in the 1960s; it was a b&w console, 21" (IIRC), and may well have been early 1950s. That set must have served them well for years, as I remember seeing it at their house for quite a while, until they finally got a color set years later.

I don't think they ever put a UHF converter on the Muntz TV when Cleveland's first UHF TV station, NET (now PBS) channel 25, went on the air; it may have been just as well if they didn't, since that station did not reach our area very well when it first went on the air in 1965. Just as well, I guess, since the programming on channel 25, at least in the beginning, was meant for the schools in the Cleveland area (the local elementary school in my home town put up a large antenna to get channel 25 and also the Cleveland network stations, although, of course, the TVs in the school were kept on channel 25 most of the time; the station signed on early in the morning (IIRC, around 8 a.m.) and called it quits for the night around midnight or so). The reception of channel 25 in my area was not good (unless a large antenna was installed), but then again, as I said, the station's programming in its early years was meant for the schools in the Cleveland area and not for mainstream viewing.