HI, Judi,
What a mixed message!  Are you looking for something with TV audio, no
picture, that you can listen to, or that your husband can listen to?  Many
regular TV sets have jacks to accept earphones.

You can buy small portable TV sets, some with AM/FM radios built-in at
prices ranging from about $20 to over $200.

On the low end, the $20 set, you pay another $10 or so to get the interface
kit with AC power supply, wire antenna, and car cigarette lighter power
adapter, is a cheap Chinese-made thing with a small black-and-white screen a
basic analog radio, a rather tinny-sounding squeaker, and it can do TV
channels VHF 2-13 and uHF 14-69.  You can find them in small-town hardware
stores, mass-merchandise dollar and discount stores, and even supermarkets
like Kroger.
Radio Shack has several of these small TV sets ranging in price from about
$50 to $200, some in black-and-white, some with color screens.

There are plenty of portable radios in the $15 to $75 price range that do
AM, FM, and the audio portion of VHF TV channels 2-13.  Sangean makes some
of the best of these, including the shirt-pocket-sized DT-200V and DT-300V
which you can get from such radio specialty shops as C. Crane and Universal
Radio.  Radio Shack has their own re-badged equivalents to these radios.

If you look on EBay, you might be able to find one of the 1980's vintage
"PortaVision" portable radios from Radio Shack,  The two best of that line
were the PortaVision 55 and the PortaVision 60 which had AM and FM radio,
and could receive the audio of both VHF and UHF channels, all the way
through channel 83.  In the mid 1990's, Radio Shack sold an Optimus Radio
Catalog No. 12-604 which had AM and FM radio, and five TV audio bands
covering VHF channels 2-13 and UHF 14-69.

Between all those options, you should be able to find something.  You might
even already have it if one of your existing TV sets has a headphone jack.
Just get a decent-sounding pair of headphones, available anywhere and as
cheap as $10, and convince the guy to wear them when you don't want to hear
the audio output of his program choice coming in from the next room.

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Brent Reynolds, Atlanta, GA  USA

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