My grandfather had an old mahogany Magnavox floor radio that stood up on legs and had doors on the front that folded back against the sides when open, and a large aerial on the roof, and a ground wire that ran along the mopboard to attach to the radiator pipe. It could pull in all manner of broadcast, and as I recall it had 12 tubes inside. It had the old tray for the big batteries (took three different sized ones at one time) but was worked over to plug in to ac when REA came through. It has burled veneer on the front inside the doors and a speaker with a heavy flowered tapestry cover and a wood fretwork over it. As I recall the radio had an on/off knob and a volume knob, and two different tuning knobs, and a selector knob that was labeled: Radio/Police/Ships at Sea. He had an old television add-on that he got later on that had a separate, nearly round picture tube, and the picture tube had a heavy cord on the back that plugged into the tuner, which it sat on, which in turn sat on top of the radio cabinet. The channel selector wasn't like a modern one, which clicks into place, but was rather like an old radio dial in that it had no channel designations but rather frequency numbers, and turned smoothly (so it could get a slightly off-sync channel, I was always told), and had one for the channel and one for fine tune, and an on/off switch, and knobs to regulate the picture tube, which had to be done after it warmed up. There was a sound wire that hooked into the radio through the vents in the back, and you tuned the radio to a blank place on the dial and used the radio's amplifier to play the sound from the television set. When turned on, the picture was tiny and got bigger as it warmed up, and when turned off, concentrated into a dot in center of the picture tube that stayed aglow for many moments afterwards.

I recall this rig working as recently as 10 years ago, at which time my cousin got it, and I haven't seen him or it since.