page_title: SABA (electronics manufacturer)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: SABA (electronics manufacturer) / History
caption_attribution_description: English: SABA "Wildbad 8" broadcast receiver from the 1950s - 7-tube superhet, 1957-58Deutsch: Rundfunkempfänger "Wildbad 8" von SABA aus den 1950er-Jahren
context_page_description: SABA is originally a German electronics company founded in 1923 at Triberg im Schwarzwald, present-day Baden-Württemberg. SABA started as a clock-making company, then became a radio manufacturer, and a few years later a record label. In 1968, SABA sold the majority of the company to GTE, an American telephone company. In 1980 the company was purchased by Thomson SA and integrated as a separate business unit.
context_section_description: SABA began as a clock-maker in Triberg (Black Forest), founded in 1835 by Joseph Benedikt Schwer. In 1918 it moved to Villingen. Herman Schwer, the founder's grandson, started the manufacturing of headphones, radio parts, and a variety of products from radio components to receivers.
  In 1931, SABA produced more than 100,000 units of the SABA Radio Type S-35. It introduced for the first time on the market dynamic loudspeakers which became soon a bestseller. The company developed the first radio receiver with search and automatic fine tuning in all bandwidths. In 1951 IFA, a consumer industry electronics show in Berlin allowed SABA to show their first TV receiver to the world. SABA successes enabled the company to manufacture tape recorders. It introduced the large TV screen projector 'Telerama' on the market. And it launched the first color TV with wireless remote control.
caption: 1950s era SABA radio.
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