Is The Gadget A TV to FM Converter?

[Markxxx]

I found this ad in an old page of a "Vane A Jones" book

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/7171/jonessummer195801.png

Note: The image is fairly big 1000 X 1571 so it might take a bit to load on a slower connection.

Now to me when I read the ad it appears to be a gadget that will allow you to receive FM signals on your TV set. It's called a Regency Televerter.

Can anybody tell me if this is indeed what it is for?

 

[kenglish]

Sure looks like it.

As I recall, FM Radio was a new invention at one time, and many people couldn't receive it.
(Sounds like so many things we do nowadays!...HDTV, DTV, HD Radio, surround,..........

 

[fussbudget]

The December 16, 1957 edition of Billboard describes it as "a device which enables the owner to receive full band FM reception thru the sound system of a television set."

 

[Markxxx]

Thanks that's what it sounded like to me, but I was a bit unsure as I figured "Why not go out and get an FM radio?" But I guess this would've been cheaper

 

[vchimpanzee]

There was a type of converter box that WQSM radio in Fayetteville, NC made sure listeners had because so few people had FM radio. I can't provide a link because the newspaper article was only available throiugh a library, and the source is now no longer in their list of databases, but this is how the source is listed in Wikipedia.

Michael Futch, "Vic Dawson's Vision Changed Fayetteville Radio," The Fayetteville Observer, December 1, 1995.