Earliest manufacturers to abandon mechanical tuners

[zeno]

A GE appliance salesman ( factory ) told me it costs more to use a mechanical clock than to use a digital clock. But the cheapest GE ranges still had them.
This was to create a step, please cheap buyers including apartmens & condos.
They also came with only one oven rack. Story there !
Same with TV's IMHO. If you look at Zenith & RCA the chassis is otherwise near identical so its easy to please them all. Some folks are just cheap to a fault.
After seeing a set with a comb filter & saying how great it is but wont pay
an extra 5$ for it. These same people wouldnt pay a dime to watch the
Statue of Liberty take a leak !

73 Zeno
LFOD !