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As fa as I remember, even old Soviet TVs did not need service every several months, and those were used daily, usually in the evening hours, though of course back then we did not spend as much time in front of it as we d now: there was not much to watch. Still 2-3 hrs every day and more on weekends.

I suppose the 85+ TV repair shops listed in the local 1966 yellow pages was just filling space? Many of those had three or four locations. By comparison in the 2005 YP there were 12, phonebook at least twice as thick with probably ¾ size print.