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Zenith was once one of the two largest television manufacturers in the United States. It invented the wireless remote control, helped define American broadcast standards, and outlasted every other domestic TV maker. Then it was gone. This is the story of Zenith — from a Chicago radio shop founded in 1918 to the last American-owned television brand, and what ultimately brought it down.