Postwar Manufacturers

Postwar Television

Postwar American Television Manufacturers

This list shows the approximate dates that companies manufactured TV sets.

Company	Started	Ended
Admiral	1947	1979
Advent	1975
Air Castle	1948
Air King Products, Pathe' Television	1948	1953
Airline, Montgomery Ward	1948
Air Marshal	1951	1953
Altec Lansing	1949	1968
AMC, Aimcee Wholesale Corp.	1949
Ambassador	1949
American Television	1951	1957
American Television and Radio, ATR Electronics	1955
Andrea Radio	1947	1978
Ansley Radio and Television	1946	1953
Approved Electronic Instrument Corp.	1949	1950
Arcturus Radio and Television	1948	1949
ARF Products	1955
Artone	1949
Arvin	1949
Atwater Television	1949	1952
Audar	1948	1949
Automatic Radio Manufacturing	1949	1954
Bace Television	1947	1956
Bell Television	1949	1965
Belmont, Bendix Radio, Raytheon	1946	1957
Bendix Radio, Belmont, Raytheon	1948	1957
Bowers Radio and Television, Bowers Battery and Spark Plug Company	1948	1953
Brociner Electronics Laboratory	1950	1953
Browne TV	1955
Brunswick Radio and Television, Radio & Television Inc., Brunswick Div.	1947	1956
Calbest Engineering and Electronics, Calbest Electronics	1949	1968
Caltech Electronics	1954
Capehart-Farnsworth Television and Radio, Capehart-Farnsworth Div IT&T	1946	1965
Cascade Television	1949	1956
CBS-Columbia	1948
Certified Radio Laboratories	1948	1966
Chatham Television	1952
Clairtone Electric Corporation	1967
Cleervue	1947	1947
Colonial Radio Corp. subs. Sylvania, Sylvania Television, Sylvania Electric Prod.	1949	1983
Color Electronics Corp.	1964
Colortronics	1952
Commander Television	1951	1952
Commodore Television Corp. (associated with Atlantic Video Corp.)	1952
Conar Instruments	1962
Conrac	1949	1962
Cornell Television Inc., Video Corp. of America	1948	1954
Coronado	1949
Coronet Radio and Television	1948	1949
Cortley Television	1948	1950
Cortron Industries, Hoffman Radio, Hoffman Electronics, Hoffman Products	1948	1970
Covideo	1951	1953
Crestwood Television Corp.	1953
Cromwell	1949
Crosley, Avco Manufacturing	1946	1957
Curtis-Mathes	1960	Present
Customade Television Inc.	1949	1950
Delco	1948	1949
Delmonico International Corporation	1967
DeWald Radio Manufacturing	1948	1958
DuMont (Allen B.) Laboratories	1946	1959
Eastern States Radio & Television Co.	1949	1950
Edison Television	1950	1951
Electro-Technical Industries, Telekit	1947	1955
Emerson Radio and Phonograph	1947	1973
Espey Manufacturing Co., Inc	1948	1950
Fada Radio and Electric	1948	1956
Farnsworth Television and Radio	1946	1965
Federal Television	1948	1952
Federal Video	1948	1950
Firestone	1948
Fisher Radio	1948	1952
Freed Radio, Freed Eisemann	1948	1954
Garod Electronics	1947	1950
General Electric	1947	1986
Gilfillan Bros.	1948	1949
Goldstar Electronics International	1983
Guild Radio and Television	1953
Hallicrafters	1948	1958
Harvey Industries	1989
Heath Company	1964
Hi-Par Products	1950	1952
Hitachi Sales Corp. of America	1975
Hoffman Radio, Hoffman Electronics, Hoffman Products, Cortron Industries	1949	1970
Hotelvision	1948	1949
Howard Radio, Muntz TV, Television Manufacturers of America, TMA Co.	1948	1972
Imperial Television	1952
Industrial Television, Inc.	1948	1957
International Television Corp.	1948	1954
Interstate Stores Television	1950	1950
Jackson Industries, Jackson Electronics and Television	1955
Jamaica Television Manufacturing	1949	1952
Jewell Radio Corp., Jewel Radio Corp.	1952
JVC	1983
Kalmus, Natalie Television Co.	1951	1952
Kane Electronics Corp.	1967
Keeney (J. H.) & Co.	1952
Kent Television	1964
Kloss Video	1981
Lehigh Television Co.	1949	1950
Lion Manufacturing	1952
Lytle & Cannon, Lytle Engineering and Manufacturing	1952
Magnavox	1948	1976
Magnavox sub. of Philips, North American Phillips Consumer Electronics Corp	1976
Majestic Radio and Television, Wilcox-Gay	1948	1958
Major Television	1948	1950
Manufacturers Television Co., Tru-Vue Television Co.	1950	1952
Mars Electronic Corp., Mars Electronics	1950	1952
Mars Television, Inc.	1948	1957
Mathes (Curtis) Manufacturing	1960
Matsushita Electric Corp. of America	1975
Mattison Television and Radio, Mattison Electronics	1949	1968
Meck (John) Industries	1949	1953
Meissner Mfg. Div. of Maguire Industries, Meissner Manufacturing	1948	1950
Mercury Television & Radio Corp., Pacific Mercury Television, Pacific Mercur	1950	1964
Merrick Television Co.	1949
Midwest Radio Corp., Midwest Radio and Television	1948	1958
Mitchell Manufacturing	1950	1954
Mitsubishi Electric Sales America	1980
Mitus Television
Monarch Radio and Television	1951	1953
Montgomery Ward, Airline	1948
Motorola	1947	1974
MP Concert Installations, MP Television , M-P Engineering Co.	1950	1959
Multiple Television	1948	1953
Muntz TV, Howard Radio, Television Manufacturers of America, TMA Co.	1948	1972
National Company	1948	1954
National Electronics Manufacturing	1952
National Polytronics, Inc.	1949	1950
National-Simplex-Bludworth	1950	1952
NEC Technologies	1989
New England Television	1947	1950
Nielsen Television	1948	1951
Noblitt-Sparks Industries, Arvin Radio, Arvin Industries	1948	1971
Norman Television	1952
North American Audio Inc.	1962
North American Philips Co., Norelco	1976
Olympic Radio and Television, Olympic International	1948	1971
Orion Electronic Co. Ltd.	1989
Pacific Vogue Radio and Television	1953
Packard-Bell, Teledyne Packard Bell	1948	1974
Pathe' Television, Air King Products	1948	1957
Peerless Television and Radio	1950	1954
Philco, Philco Ford Corp., Philco-Ford Corp.	1947	1976
Philharmonic Radio Corp., Philharmonic Radio and Television	1949	1958
Philips, North American Phillips Consumer Electronics Corp., Magnavox	1976
Philmore Manufacturing	1949	1965
Pilot Radio	1948	1957
Pilot Radio Corp. (Jerrold Subsidiary)	1964
Pioneer Electronics	1985
Pioneer Television Co.	1949	1950
Prescott Television	1952
Radio Craftsman / The Radio Craftsmen	1949	1956
Raytheon, Belmont, Bendix Radio	1948	1957
Ravenswood (div. of Annapolis Electroacoustics Corp.)	1962
RCA	1946	1986
Regal Electronics	1948	1956
Rembrandt Television	1950	1952
Remington Radio	1947	1951
Richmart Corp.	1951	1952
Rod Radio Manufacturing Co.	1949	1950
Roesch (Douglas J.)	1952
Rokville, Rokaville	1955
Royal Radio & Television Corp., Royal Television & Radio Corp.	1949	1950
Sampo Corp. of America	1981
Samsung America Inc.	1989
Sanabria Television Corp., American Television	1960
Sanyo Manufacturing Corp.	1977
Scott Radio Laboratories	1947	1957
Semco Engineering and Manufacturing, Semco Electronics	1952
Sentinel Radio	1948	1957
Setchell Carlson	1950	1970
Sharp Electronics	1983
Shaw Television	1950	1955
Shevers, Harold, Gotham Television Corp.	1948	1958
Sightmaster Corp.	1948	1951
Silvertone, Sears, Roebuck & Co.	1949
Singer Television, Singer (Eugene) Electronics Company, Closed-Circuit Corp.	1953
SMA	1950	1952
Snaider Television, Television Assembly Co.	1948	1954
Sonora Corp. of America	1962
Sonora Radio and Television, Sonora Electronics	1946	1960
Sony Corp. of America	1975
Sovereign Television	1949	1950
Sparks-Withington, Sparton Radio-Television	1948	1956
Speedway Products Inc.	1949	1950
Starrett Television	1948	1955
Stewart-Warner	1947	1955
Stolle Engineering and Manufacturing	1949	1951
Stromberg-Carlson	1947	1957
Sylvania Television, Colonial Radio Corp., Sylvania Electric Products	1949	1983
Symphonic Electronic Corp	1960
Symphonic Radio and Electronics	1952
Symphony Radio and TV	1950	1952
Tatung Company of America	1979
Tech-Master Products Company, Tech-Master Corp.	1948	1968
Tele King	1948	1956
Telekit, Electro-Technical Industries	1947	1955
Tel-vision Labs, Inc.	1948
Tele-Tone Radio	1948	1954
Tele-Video Corp., Reevesoundcraft	1949	1952
Telequip Radio	1968
Teletronics	1970
Television Inc.	1950	1952
Television Assembly Co., Snaider	1948	1954
Television Manufacturers of America, TMA Company, Howard Radio, Muntz	1948	1973
Televista Corp. of America	1948	1951
Telindustries, Kaye-Halbert Corp.	1949	1956
Templetone Radio	1948	1951
Thompson, Thomson Consumer Electronics Inc.	1987
Toshiba America	1978
Trad Television, Trad Electronics	1949	1958
Trans-Vue	1949	1951
Transvision	1946	1967
Trav-Ler Radio, Trav-Ler Industries	1948	1957
Truetone, Western Auto Supply	1949
United States Television Manufacturing Corp.	1947	1952
Vidaire	1952
Vidcraft Television	1948	1952
Video Corp. of America, Cornell Television Inc	1948	1954
Video Products Corp., Sheraton Television	1948
Videodyne	1948	1950
Viewtone	1946
Walsco Electronics	1955
Warwick Manufacturing, Warwick Electronics	1951	1977
Watterson Radio	1948	1949
Wells-Gardner	1948	1990
Western Auto Supply, Truetone	1949
Wilcox-Gay, Majestic Radio and Television	1948	1958
Westinghouse	1947	1969
Zenith Radio	1948	1990

TV Manufacturers in 1949

Early Television

Television Receiver Specifications - 1950-51