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Don't recall the stereo TVs being plugged on the Tonight show, but I do know that it was the first NBC studio to be modified and first daily NBC program to be done in stereo. Now the Tonight show also has been NBC's experimental platform for daily live (well, tape-delayed, anyway) HDTV.
TV stereo has stage-size mismatch problems if you have a small screen - enough speaker separation for decent stereo and the sound image is much wider than the picture; or use the built-in speakers and get little or no stereo effect. But with a large wide screen, the stereo/picture combo can be great. So, IMO, stereo TV was too early, and mainly something to put on the set hang-tag to keep up with the competition. Now it's being supplanted by digital and 5.1 surround, and I wonder if anyone would care if existing analog broadcasts were in mono (at least those not listening on external speakers)?
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