Down Under TVs

[kx250rider]

Originally Posted by bgadow

Now, what was the connection (if any) between this Radiola and RCA?

My thoughts exactly! That looks frighteningly similar to an early 50s RCA... Cabinet style, and even the chassis. I bet it must be related. Tyrant-Murderer-General Sarnoff would NEVER NEVER have allowed anyone to use the name RADIOLA. His Mafia would have gone to Australia, bankrupted and driven to suicide every TV inventor and corporate head, and stopped all production of all TV sets for about 100 years.

Charles

[Whirled One]

Originally Posted by Kaye-Halbert TV

My thoughts exactly! [...] General Sarnoff would NEVER NEVER have allowed anyone to use the name RADIOLA. His Mafia would have gone to Australia, bankrupted and driven to suicide every TV inventor and corporate head, and stopped all production of all TV sets for about 100 years.

That's what I was thinking too, but apparently not..! See:
http://www.radiola.co.nz/aboutus.asp

Looks like AWA/Radiola has been around for quite a while (and in fact been selling radios under the Radiola name since 1924), and doesn't appear to have had any relationship with RCA or Victor. Huh.

On a related note, it always seemed kinda interesting to me that while RCA is long-gone in the USA, the old Victor Talking Machine company still lives-- well, their old Japanese subsidiary, anyway (Victor Company of Japan). ...Which we know of as JVC, though they still use the Victor name and "Nipper" logo on their products for the Japanese market. (They can't in the USA, though, since RCA (now GE) has the rights to the Victor name and logo in the USA on consumer electronics products.)