Factories

Production lines and plant interiors: glass forming, frit sealing, phosphor screening, gun mounting, evacuation, ageing racks, chassis assembly, coil winding, wave soldering, and the panel cleanrooms that replaced all of it. The story runs from America and Europe to Japan, then Korea, then China, and it is told here in Russian, German, Japanese, Korean and Chinese sources as well as English, because an English search alone ends it in Japan in 1985.

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111 moments in this segment.

1. 1930 - Philips glasfabrieken. Philips glass factories, from the Eye Filmmuseum. Making your own glass envelopes is what made Philips independent of American suppliers.
2. 1930 - N.V. Philips gloeilampenfabrieken. Philips lamp works filmed by the company, held by the Eye Filmmuseum. The lamp factory is the parent of the tube factory: same glass working, same vacuum, same getter chemistry.
3. 1935 - 1930s London Factory, Making Radios. A London factory making radios in the 1930s. Radio manufacture is the industry that television manufacture grew directly out of, using the same benches and the same workers.
4. 1936 - Camden, New Jersey - Radio. RCA Victor. Final Inspector - testing radio frequency alignment and making. A final inspector at RCA Victor in Camden, New Jersey, testing radio frequency alignment on the production line. Camden was RCA's main plant and the place where Zworykin's laboratory work turned into manufactured product. The photograph is by Lewis Hine.
5. 1950 - !! Manufacturing RCA Television, vacuum tubes, CRT 1919s- 1960s. Compiled footage of RCA television, vacuum tube and CRT manufacture across several decades. Useful as a survey of how the same plant changed as the product changed.
6. 1953 - Fotothek df roe-neg 011 Besucher betrachten Fernsehempfänger des VEB Sachsenwerk Radeberg, Technische Me. Visitors examining receivers from VEB Sachsenwerk Radeberg at the Technical Fair in 1953. For most of the people in this photograph it would have been the first television set they had stood in front of.
7. 1953 - Fotothek df roe-neg 018 Drei Fernsehempfänger Modell T 2 "Leningrad" des VEB Sachsenwerk Radeberg, Techn. Three T2 Leningrad receivers made by VEB Sachsenwerk Radeberg, shown at the Technical Fair in 1953. The Radeberg works built East Germany's first television sets to a Soviet design, which is why a German built receiver carries a Leningrad name.
8. 1953 - Fotothek df roe-neg 019 Zwei Fernsehempfänger Modell T 2 "Leningrad" des VEB Sachsenwerk Radeberg, Techn. Two T2 Leningrad receivers from VEB Sachsenwerk Radeberg at the 1953 Technical Fair. Radeberg was the East German plant that started series television production, working from the Soviet design.
9. 1953 - Fotothek df roe-neg 022 Besucher betrachten den Fernsehempfänger FE 852 B am Stand des VEB Sachsenwerk R. Visitors examining the FE 852 B Rembrandt receiver on the VEB Sachsenwerk Radeberg stand at the 1953 Technical Fair. The Radeberg works was East Germany's first television plant, and the Rembrandt was among its early domestic models.
10. 1953 - Fotothek df roe-neg 026 Chassis des Fernseh-Kleinempfängers HF E 6 des VEB Werk für Fernmeldewesen Berli. The chassis of an HF E 6 small television receiver from the VEB works at Berlin Oberschöneweide, photographed in 1953. The chassis is the set: the cabinet was a box built around this assembly of valves, transformers and hand wiring.
11. 1953 - Fotothek df roe-neg 027 Chassis des Fernseh-Kleinempfängers HF E 6 des VEB Werk für Fernmeldewesen Berli. A second view of the HF E 6 receiver chassis from the Berlin Oberschöneweide works in 1953, taken from a different angle. East German set production was concentrated in a handful of VEB plants supplying the whole republic.
12. 1953 - 1953 U.S. NAVY ELECTRONIC MANUFACTURING DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM PROJECT TINKERTOY 47174. Project Tinkertoy, a 1953 US Navy programme for automated electronic manufacturing. Automating electronics assembly was attempted for military reasons first and reached consumer television later.
13. 1954 - 1954г. телевизор "Темп". радиозавод "Темп". Москва. The Temp television and its radio works in Moscow, 1954. Soviet set specifications and model dates are not established in the sources and are not asserted here.
14. 1955 - A factory producing radio components, 1950's -- Film 9712. A 1950s factory producing radio components. Component supply is the invisible half of set manufacture.
15. 1955 - Television Manufacturing 1950's. Television manufacturing in the 1950s, filmed inside the plant. American dominance runs from 1946 to the late 1960s, with RCA, Zenith, Philco, Admiral, Motorola, Emerson, Sylvania, Magnavox and DuMont all building sets.
16. 1955 - 1950s Factory Operation - This Is Automation - Automated Manufacturing - CharlieDeanArchives. This Is Automation, a 1950s film on automated manufacturing. Automation arrives in electronics assembly slowly, and the valve-era television line remained heavily manual.
17. 1955 - " THE LONG CORRIDOR " 1955 ZENITH TELEVISION PROMO FILM TV SET MANUFACTURE & QUALITY TESTING 19824. The Long Corridor, a 1955 Zenith promotional film on set manufacture and quality testing. At its 1962 height Zenith ran at least seven Chicago plants employing more than 6,460 workers, including facilities on West Dickens Avenue and West Potomac Avenue.
18. 1955 - Zenith Radio Corporation Research: The Long Corridor 1955 Educational Documentary WDTVLIVE - The Bes. Zenith Radio Corporation research in The Long Corridor, from a different holding. Zenith long-used slogan was that the quality goes in before the name goes on, though the company itself notes prior use by other firms as early as 1906.
19. 1955 - Modern Production (1950-1959). British Pathé on modern production methods in the 1950s, the general industrial context in which set manufacture sat. The operations repeat across every producing country for forty years: chassis assembly, coil winding, wave soldering, alignment and final test.
20. 1955 - HOW IT'S MADE: 1950's Televisions. A 1950s film following television manufacture from components to finished set. Chassis assembly, coil winding, wave soldering and final test are the operations that repeat in every producing country for forty years.
21. 1956 - 1956 г. Производство первых моделей телевизоров в СССР.. Production of the first television models in the USSR in 1956, from a regional history channel. Television assembly was heavily female labour on the coil-winding, wiring and final-assembly lines through the valve era in every producing country.
22. 1956 - 1956г. Кинескопы для телевизоров. Электроламповый завод. Москва. Kinescopes for televisions at the electric lamp works in Moscow, 1956. The Soviet lamp works, like the Western ones, moved from bulbs into tubes.
23. 1958 - 2019-07-20. Ейский историко-краеведческий музей 117. A Znamya-58 television receiver in the Yeysk local history museum, a model the Leningrad plant put into production from 1958. Soviet designs stayed in production for years at a time, so one model furnished a great many households.
24. 1958 - PYE BBC television studio camera research and radio manufacture film 1950s/60s. Pye camera research and radio manufacture filmed in the 1950s and 1960s. Pye built both studio cameras and domestic receivers.
25. 1959 - Nürnberg, Firma Grundig. Close inspection of a just assembled television chassis for picture quality at the Grundig radio works in Nuremberg. A test card is used because it makes every fault and every geometric distortion visible at a glance, which is why test patterns existed in the first place.
26. 1959 - Manufacturing The Reasons Why 1959 RCA; Desiging and Making Televisions ✪ Retro Documentary Films. A second copy of the 1959 RCA manufacturing film, held on a documentary archive channel. The film covers design and production together, which is rare.
27. 1959 - FERGUSON - MEN OF VISION! Television manufacturing 1959. Ferguson Men of Vision, a 1959 film on British television manufacturing. Ferguson was part of the Thorn group, which came to dominate British set making and rental together.
28. 1959 - Television Manufacturing In America : The Reasons Why - 1959 Educational Film - S88TV1. The Reasons Why, a 1959 RCA educational film on designing and making televisions. It is a company account of its own manufacturing and is unusually detailed on process.
29. 1960 - VEB Werk für Fernsehelektronik in Berlin, Brigade "7.Oktober". The 7th of October brigade at the VEB Werk für Fernsehelektronik in Berlin, photographed in January 1960. Production brigades were named for political anniversaries and photographed as a unit, so the workforce is presented as the plant's achievement.
30. 1960 - Lotte Ulbricht im VEB Fernsehelektronik in Berlin-Oberschöneweide. Lotte Ulbricht visiting the VEB Werk für Fernsehelektronik at Berlin-Oberschöneweide in March 1960. The WF works was East Germany's television electronics plant, and official visits to it were staged as demonstrations of industrial progress.
31. 1960 - GEC 405 line Television factory Coventry 1960. The GEC 405-line television factory at Coventry in 1960. British manufacture began in 1936 and the industry after the war ran through Thorn, Pye, Bush, Ekco, Ferguson and Murphy.
32. 1961 - B43G4C Colorskop; WF. A side view of a Colorskop colour tube, built at the Werk für Fernsehelektronik between 1961 and 1964, preserved at the Industriesalon Schöneweide. East German colour tube development ran years behind Western Europe, and surviving examples of these early tubes are rare.
33. 1963 - B0118-0010-027, Werk für Fernsehelektronik, Besuch Chruschtschow. Chruschtschow, am 18.1.1963 näher mit den ökonomischen Problemen bekannt, die auf dem VI. Parteitag der SED für die Periode des entfalteten Aufbaus des Sozialismus in der DDR zur Diskussion stehen. Das "WF", einer der bedeutendsten Elektronikbetriebe im Osten der Hauptstadt, zählt zu den wichtigsten Zulieferbetrieben für den elektronischen.
34. 1963 - Betriebsfilmstudio zeigt Fernsehgerätewerk Staßfurt RFT um 1963. The works film studio of the VEB Fernsehgerätewerk Staßfurt showing the East German television plant around 1963. RFT was the East German electronics combine and Staßfurt was its television works.
35. 1965 - VEB Fernsehgerätewerk Staßfurt 1965. The Staßfurt television works in 1965, filmed inside the production halls. The migration runs Germany, Britain and France in the 1930s, America from 1946, Japan from 1959, Korea in the 1980s and 1990s, then China from the 2000s.
36. 1966 - Philips television factory 1966, The Netherlands.. Inside the Philips television factory in the Netherlands in 1966. Philips is the company through which most European television hardware history runs.
37. 1969 - Rubin-111 April 1969. Setting up a first class Rubin-111 television receiver with remote control, made by the Moscow Television Plant, in April 1969. Soviet sets were graded by class, and a first class receiver with remote control was near the top of what was available domestically.
38. 1969 - Evoluon Promotie Film (1969) | Eindhoven | Techniek Museum Philips | Full HD 1080p | Carillon Film. The 1969 promotional film for the Evoluon, the Philips science museum in Eindhoven, in a period when the company was presenting its own technology to the public. Panel manufacturing follows set manufacturing east with roughly a decade of lag, which is why the fabs are now where the assembly lines already were.
39. 1971 - Berlin, Werk für Fernsehelektronik. The Lebensfreude work collective in the tube division of the Werk für Fernsehelektronik in Berlin, photographed in December 1971. The brigade was credited with saving 120,000 Mark during 1971 through a defect free working system, and East German plant photography routinely recorded such figures as the point of the picture.
40. 1975 - For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image capt. The Werk für Fernsehelektronik in Berlin photographed in October 1975, with its cultural centre. Large East German combines built social facilities alongside the production halls, so the plant was a place people belonged to rather than only worked at.
41. 1975 - VEB Fernsehgerätewerk Staßfurt (um 1975). VEB Fernsehgerätewerk Staßfurt around 1975. East German sets were built to a plan rather than a market, and the plant films are the main surviving visual record.
42. 1975 - VEB Fernsehgerätewerk Stassfurt um 1975. A second Staßfurt works film from the mid 1970s. Individual CRT plant closure dates are not established in the sources; only Videocon ceasing in 2015 is sourced as the end of large-scale manufacture.
43. 1975 - Old days [Matsushita Graphic Communication Systems, Inc. Niigata Factory]. The Matsushita Graphic Communication Systems Niigata factory in earlier days. Matsushita, later Panasonic, was the largest Japanese consumer electronics maker.
44. 1975 - Харьковский завод Коммунар. Берёзка 212 на конвейере. 1975год.. A Berezka 212 on the conveyor at the Kommunar works in Kharkov, 1975. Seeing a named Soviet model actually moving down a line is rare footage.
45. 1976 - Production Philips KT1 portable colour/color television 1976. Production of the Philips KT1 portable colour television in 1976. Philips at Eindhoven was the European counterweight to RCA and built its own glass, tubes and sets.
46. 1982 - Japanese industry | Japan | TV EYE | 1982. A 1982 Thames documentary on Japanese industry. Japanese dominance runs from 1959 onward, beginning with the all-transistor Sony TV8-301 and continuing through Matsushita, Toshiba, Hitachi, Sharp, Sanyo, JVC and Mitsubishi.
47. 1982 - Grundig-Werk (1982). The Grundig works in 1982. Grundig, Telefunken, Nordmende, Saba, Loewe and Blaupunkt were the German consumer electronics industry that later collapsed almost entirely.
48. 1983 - Vintage Panasonic Miniature Black And White Television With AM-FM Radio, Model TR-1020P, 1.5 Inch Diagonal. A Panasonic miniature monochrome receiver with AM and FM radio, screen an inch and a half across, made in Japan and dated August 1983 on the set. The manufacture stamp on the case is what dates it.
49. 1984 - Vintage Sony Watchman Handheld Flat Black And White TV, Model FD-20A, Made In Japan, Manufacture Date -. A Sony handheld monochrome television made in Japan and dated March 1984 on the set itself. Sony was still building these in Japan at this point, before the line moved to Taiwan later in the decade.
50. 1984 - Vintage Sony Watchman Miniature Flat B&W TV-FM Stereo & AM Receiver, Model FD-30A, Made In Japan,. A Sony miniature flat screen monochrome set combined with an FM stereo and AM receiver, made in Japan in June 1984. Packing a radio alongside the tube was how a pocket television justified its price.
51. 1984 - How to build a Television | Television assembly plant | Sanyo Televisions | Afternoon plus | 1984. Thames Television inside a Sanyo television assembly plant in 1984, showing how a set is built. Japanese manufacturers building in Britain is the middle stage of the migration east, before production moved on again.
52. 1985 - 80年代ブラウン管テレビ製造現場レア映像 #222. Rare footage of an 1980s Japanese CRT television production line. This is the period when Japanese manufacture was at its peak and just before Korea began to take share.
53. 1987 - 1987г. Кишинёв. телевизионный завод "Альфа". The Alfa television plant at Kishinev in 1987. Soviet television manufacture was distributed across the republics, and Moldova had its own works.
54. 1988 - Toshiba Electronics factory | Electronics factory | This Week | 1988. Thames reporting from a Toshiba electronics factory in 1988. Japanese inward investment kept British assembly alive for another decade after the domestic makers had gone.
55. 1994 - InterAMI TV Samsung plant Kharkiv 1994 1. The Amitron-Samsung television production line at the InterAMI plant in Kharkiv, Ukraine, in 1994. A Korean manufacturer partnering with a post-Soviet plant is the shape of the industry at that moment, as production moved east and Soviet-era factories looked for partners.
56. 1994 - “TV is King” - BBC Film documentary - The rarest television technology on earth - 1994. TV is King, a 1994 BBC documentary described as covering the rarest television technology on earth, from the archive of a named production company. The operations repeat across every producing country for forty years: chassis assembly, coil winding, wave soldering, alignment and final test.
57. 1999 - Fukushima 1 Nuclear Power Plant 24. Phot taken in one of the reactor control rooms at the Fulushima 1 nuclear power plant in Japan. Image shows a monitor with remote cameras viewing the top floor of the reactor building which is where it is accessed for fuelling. This photo was taken on June 23, 1999 during a plant tour.
58. 2007 - Large monitors on the wall, Studio 9000, PatchWerk Recording Studios, 2007 (brighten). Large monitors mounted on the control room wall at Patchwerk recording studio in Atlanta. Studio monitoring screens are specified for accuracy under constant use rather than for picture appeal, which is a different requirement from a domestic set.
59. 2008 - Upper part of a transmitter tube SRW317, manufactured at Werk für Fernsehelektronik Berlin. The upper part of a transmitter tube made at the Werk für Fernsehelektronik in Berlin, displayed at the Deutsches Technikmuseum. The WF plant was East Germany's television electronics works and supplied tubes across the Eastern bloc.
60. 2010 - LG 60PK550 manufacturing tablet sticker. The manufacturing label on the back of an LG plasma television, recording assembly in Poland in 2010. The label is the document: a Korean brand building plasma sets inside the European Union to sell there.
61. 2012-02-07 - ПОСМОТРИ КОМСОМОЛ TV! Про завод телевизоров: как было. A local account of what a Soviet television factory was actually like to work in. Television assembly was heavily female labour on the coil-winding, wiring and final-assembly lines through the valve era in every producing country.
62. 2012 - Panevežys factory "Ekranas" (Color TV tube) - panoramio. The Ekranas factory at Panevėžys in Lithuania, which made colour television tubes. Ekranas was one of the largest tube plants in the Soviet Union and later in independent Lithuania, and the European tube industry did not outlive the CRT by long.
63. 2013 - Телевизор Волхов-Б. A Volkhov television, made by the Novgorod television plant, displayed at the GUM department store in Moscow. GUM was the Soviet Union's flagship store and getting a set onto its floor was a statement about the plant that built it.
64. 2015 - Four old tube television sets in Chagoda, Vologda Oblast. Several tube receivers stored together in a house at Chagoda, Vologda Oblast, Russia. Sets accumulate in Russian provincial houses rather than being disposed of, because there is no collection service to take them away.
65. 2015 - Start-3 black-and-white TV set in Chagoda, Vologda Oblast. A Start-3 monochrome television, built by the Moscow Radio Engineering Plant between 1959 and 1967, in Chagoda, Vologda Oblast. Soviet models stayed in production for the better part of a decade, so a single design furnished a great many households.
66. 2015 - Volkhov and Start-3 black-and-white TV sets in Chagoda, Vologda Oblast. Volkhov and Start-3 monochrome television sets in Chagoda, Vologda Oblast. Both were made at Soviet regional plants, and finding them side by side shows how long that hardware stayed in circulation.
67. 2015 - Volkhov black-and-white TV set in Chagoda, Vologda Oblast. A Volkhov monochrome television set in Chagoda, Vologda Oblast, made by the Novgorod television plant. Regional plants supplied their own regions, so a set's brand often tells you where it was used.
68. 2016-03-04 - 液晶电视显示屏组装线 生产线 老化线. An LCD television display assembly line, module line and ageing line in China. Ageing racks, where finished units run for hours before shipping, are a direct inheritance from tube manufacture.
69. 2016 - Реле дежурного режима РЭК73 (ранее КУЦ-1), Иркутский релейный завод. A standby mode relay for television sets, made by the Irkutsk Relay plant, an example of the lowest cost all plastic consumer component. Standby switching is what let a set respond to a remote control while apparently off, and it had to be built down to a price.
70. 2017 - Б12 матрицы конденсаторов, завод Мотор (Тараща) 01. B12 series capacitor arrays for television sets, made by the Motor Tarashcha plant in Ukraine. Components like these were produced at dedicated plants and shipped to the set assembly works, which is how the Soviet electronics industry was organised.
71. 2019-04-26 - Как производят телевизоры в Китае (завод SANSUI, BIBANG Group). How televisions are produced in China, filmed at the Sansui and BIBANG works by a Russian-language channel. A Russian view of Chinese manufacture is a useful third position.
72. 2019 - EF80; WF. An EF80 pentode valve manufactured at the Werk für Fernsehelektronik in Berlin. The WF works supplied the valves that East German receivers were built around, and the plant name is stamped on the glass.
73. 2019 - SRW317; WF. A water cooled transmitting triode made at the Werk für Fernsehelektronik in Berlin, held by the Deutsches Technikmuseum. Transmitting valves ran hot enough to need water jackets, which is why broadcast transmitters were plumbed as well as wired.
74. 2019-07-02 - Завод Foxconn: производство телевизоров!. Television production at a Foxconn plant, filmed by a labour-focused channel. Foxconn contract manufacture sits behind many brand names.
75. 2019-12-13 - SONYの製造工場に潜入‼︎ チャラ男社会科見学ブッかま‼︎. A visit inside a Sony manufacturing plant in Japan. The migration runs Germany, Britain and France in the 1930s, America from 1946, Japan from 1959, Korea in the 1980s and 1990s, then China from the 2000s.
76. 2020-04-28 - LG Display（广州黄埔）-全球最大尺寸和最先进的8.5代OLED生产线. The LG Display 8.5 generation OLED line at Guangzhou, presented as the largest and most advanced of its kind. Korean panel makers building in China is the most recent leg of the migration.
77. 2020 - Finlux 3624B Manufacturing tablet. The manufacturing sticker and serial number on the back of a Finlux television set. The plate is the only place a set records where and when it was built, which is why these labels are worth photographing.
78. 2020 - WF Optokoppler. Optocouplers from the VEB Werk für Fernsehelektronik in Berlin, pairing gallium arsenide infrared emitters with silicon phototransistors. An optocoupler passes a signal between two circuits with no electrical connection between them, which is how a television isolates its mains side from its low voltage side.
79. 2020-08-19 - Panasonic台灣松下電視工廠大公開｜日本技術 台灣原廠製造
80. 2021-03-03 - Derelict Zenith TV and Radio Factory on Chicago’s West Side. The derelict Zenith television and radio factory on Chicago West Side, filmed empty. By 1988 Zenith was the last American television manufacturer; LG took a controlling interest in 1995, Zenith filed Chapter 11 in 1999, and LG bought the remaining stake that year. The American industry ends with a Korean company buying the last survivor.
81. 2021-05-10 - Что было до: Завод "Рубин" - Рынок "Горбушкин Двор". What stood before the Gorbushka market: the Rubin television factory site. Rubin was one of the best known Soviet television brands.
82. 2021 - GA102 WF. A germanium point contact diode manufactured at the Werk für Fernsehelektronik in Berlin. Germanium point contact devices were the first mass produced semiconductors and they detected the signal in receivers before silicon displaced them.
83. 2021 - GA108 WF. A germanium point contact diode from the Werk für Fernsehelektronik in Berlin, part of the plant's discrete semiconductor output. East Germany built its own semiconductor supply because importing Western components was constrained by trade restrictions.
84. 2021-08-05 - 7/27/2021........”Revisiting the Bloomington RCA Plant.......A History”, by Sandy Lynch. A local history talk revisiting the RCA plant at Bloomington, Indiana. RCA built sets and tubes across Camden, Lancaster, Marion and Bloomington; individual plant closure dates are not established in the sources and are not asserted here.
85. 2021-08-13 - 电视机生产线，显示屏装配线，模组线，邮箱📮[email protected]. A Chinese television production line and display assembly line filmed on the floor. The operations repeat across every producing country for forty years: chassis assembly, coil winding, wave soldering, alignment and final test.
86. 2021-09-30 - 70 Years of TV in The Netherlands, by Philips & Beeld en Geluid. Seventy years of television in the Netherlands, made by Philips with the Dutch national audiovisual institute. Panel manufacturing follows set manufacturing east with roughly a decade of lag, which is why the fabs are now where the assembly lines already were.
87. 2021-11-03 - РУБИН: был оборонный завод, стал ЖК (Карта запустения) // СМЫСЛ.doc. The Rubin plant in Moscow, once a defence works and now housing, filmed as a study in industrial abandonment. Individual CRT plant closure dates are not established in the sources; only Videocon ceasing in 2015 is sourced as the end of large-scale manufacture.
88. 2022-05-24 - 축구장 240개 규모면 아무래도 마을인 편이죠 LG디스플레이 파주사업장 [사업장 탐방]. LG Display own tour of the Paju plant, described as the size of 240 football pitches. LG large OLED televisions use a white emitter with a four-subpixel colour filter, white plus red, green and blue, because shadow-masked RGB deposition does not scale to large panels.
89. 2022 - Household Utensils at the Museum of the Uralmash Plant - 10. Soviet domestic objects displayed at the Uralmash plant history museum in Yekaterinburg, including an early Soviet table receiver. Placing a television among everyday household items is the exhibit's argument about what the set became. It is a museum display.
90. 2023-04-11 - 有機ELディスプレイ製造装置　紹介動画. Canon Tokki OLED display manufacturing equipment. Canon Tokki makes the evaporation machines that deposit OLED layers, and it is a bottleneck supplier almost nobody outside the industry names.
91. 2023-09-05 - 오토 디스플레이 대부분이 여기서 생산된다고? LG디스플레이 구미사업장 [사업장 탐방]
92. 2024 - Start-2 black-and-white TV set in Tashkent, Yangiobod bazaar 01. A Start-2 monochrome television offered for sale at the Yangiobod bazaar in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Soviet-era sets still change hands in Central Asian second hand markets decades after the plants that built them closed.
93. 2024-08-20 - シャープ堺工場、21日に停止でテレビ用液晶パネル生産終了‥盛者必衰の理　by榊淳司. Commentary on the Sakai plant halt and the end of Japanese television LCD panel production, framed as the fall of a giant. Television assembly was heavily female labour on the coil-winding, wiring and final-assembly lines through the valve era in every producing country.
94. 2025-05-16 - 【県内雇用にも影響か】液晶パネル大手JDIが1500人削減へ　川北町「石川工場」が唯一の国内工場に. Japan Display cutting 1500 jobs, leaving a single remaining domestic plant. The end state of the Japanese panel industry in one news item.
95. 2025-05-29 - 【液晶テレビ戦争】シャープ・SONY・パナソニックのテレビ事業が崩壊した歴史的背景（亀山工場売却）. A Japanese analysis of how the television businesses of Sharp, Sony and Panasonic collapsed, framed around the sale of the Kameyama plant. Kameyama was the plant Sharp built to keep LCD production in Japan.
96. 2025 - Akimov collection in Museum of Lokalov manufacture in Gavrilov-Yam - Rassvet-304 - 2025-08. A Rassvet-304 television in the Akimov photographers' collection at the Lokalov linen manufactory museum in Gavrilov-Yam, Russia. Provincial Russian museums hold much of the surviving evidence of Soviet consumer manufacturing.
97. 2025 - Museum of Linen manufacture by merchants Lokalov - Rekord V-306 - 2025-08 - p20. A Rekord V-306 television displayed in the museum of the Lokalov linen manufactory at Gavrilov-Yam, Russia. A local industrial museum holding a Soviet set treats the television as part of the same manufacturing story as the mill itself.
98. 2025 - SZY23 WF. A voltage reference element from the Werk für Fernsehelektronik, a Zener diode in series with two forward biased diodes to compensate for temperature drift. Combining devices to cancel temperature effects is a standard trick where a stable reference matters more than simplicity.
99. 2025-08-30 - How TELEVISIONS are Made in a Factory.
100. 2025-10-18 - How Televisions Are Made From Millions of Components Inside China's Massive Factory. How televisions are assembled from components inside a large Chinese factory. The migration runs Germany, Britain and France in the 1930s, America from 1946, Japan from 1959, Korea in the 1980s and 1990s, then China from the 2000s.
101. 2026-01-25 - SAMSUNG TV Production Process: Inside the World’s Biggest Samsung TV Factory (Full Process). A walk through Samsung television production. Two Korean and two Chinese companies hold the top four positions in the modern market and the leading Japanese maker is fifth, which is the whole geography of the industry in one line.
102. 2026-03-01 - TCL TV Factory: The Incredible 4K Production Line You've Never Seen. Inside a TCL television production line. Chinese dominance runs from the 2000s onward, through TCL, Hisense, Skyworth, Konka and Changhong, and the panel makers BOE and TCL CSOT.
103. 2026-03-04 - Wie Deutschland das Farbfernsehen erfand und alles verlor: Die SABA-Werke. A German documentary on the SABA works and how Germany invented colour television and then lost the industry. PAL was developed by Walter Bruch at Telefunken in Hanover and patented by Telefunken in December 1962, with first broadcasts in West Germany on 25 August 1967 at the Berlin radio show.
104. 2026-03-04 - 【日さく紹介】テレビ埼玉「ググっと！製造業」. A Japanese regional television feature on manufacturing, filmed on the factory floor. The operations repeat across every producing country for forty years: chassis assembly, coil winding, wave soldering, alignment and final test.
105. 2026-03-17 - Inside $20 Billion Hisense Smart TV Factory – Full Production Line Tour | How Smart TVs Are Made. A full production line tour of a Hisense smart television factory. Hisense at Qingdao is one of the big four Chinese set makers.
106. 2026-05-20 - How Televisions Are Made Inside One Of The World’s Most Advanced Electronics Factory. Television manufacture inside a large modern electronics factory. Panel manufacturing follows set manufacturing east with roughly a decade of lag, which is why the fabs are now where the assembly lines already were.
107. 2026-08-08 - Подкаст. 📺 Как создавались Омские телевизоры. В музее телевизионного завода. A podcast recorded in the museum of the Omsk television factory on how Omsk sets were made. Factory museums in the former Soviet Union are now the main institutional memory of that industry.
108. 2026-08-16 - 🔥 逛完全中国最大家电工厂！妈呀！原来我们被参数骗这么久❗️ 😱. A tour of what is described as the largest home appliance factory in China, in Chinese. Domestic Chinese coverage of these plants is the material an English search never returns.
109. 2026-08-16 - TCL品质怎么样？直接杀到工厂探究竟！. A Chinese-language visit to a TCL factory to check build quality, made by consumers rather than the company. Individual CRT plant closure dates are not established in the sources; only Videocon ceasing in 2015 is sourced as the end of large-scale manufacture.
110. 2026-08-23 - Inside $18 Billion LG OLED Smart TV Factory – Full Production Line Tour | How Smart TVs Are Made. An LG OLED smart television production line tour. The migration runs Germany, Britain and France in the 1930s, America from 1946, Japan from 1959, Korea in the 1980s and 1990s, then China from the 2000s.
111. 2026-08-25 - Inside $12 Billion Sony TV Factory – Full Production Line Tour | How Sony BRAVIA TVs Are Made. A Sony Bravia production line tour. Television assembly was heavily female labour on the coil-winding, wiring and final-assembly lines through the valve era in every producing country.