Shown here are the televisions that were available 70 years ago from the Belmont Radio Corporation, 5927 West Dickens Avenue, Chicago.

The ad featured two sets. “The Criterion”, a console set, had a list price of $349.95. “The Challenger”, a table set, sold for $299.95. Both were billed as having a 176 square inch picture. This was apparently before the days when TV manufacturers started measuring the picture diagonally. 176 square inches would be equivalent to about a 19 inch diagonal tube. Other sets in the Belmont line went as small as 74 square inches, or about 12 inches diagonally.

The ad appeared in the December 1949 issue of Radio Retailing.