Additionally, the company extruded lengths of aluminum tubing that was wholesaled to firms that utilized it in products such as webbed folding beach chairs.
[8] Avnet Corporation purchased Channel Master in 1967, moving its manufacturing facilities to a former Sylvania television factory in Smithfield, North Carolina.
[11] Its Smithfield satellite dish factory, which formerly employed 1,600 people,[12] was turned over to Andrew Corporation[13] as part of an $18 million purchase of Channel Master's equipment, inventory, and intellectual property.
[14] In 2012, a group of private investors led by Coty Youtsey acquired the Channel Master brand and TV antenna business.
[18] After the sale to Avnet, the Channel Master name was used to import and distribute various electronic products, including home and car stereo equipment, turntables, cassette decks, 8-track players, quadraphonic audio, television receivers and scanner radios.