Radiation King (company)

Radiation King was a pre-War company that manufactured several popular lines of radio and television sets.

Known facilities

 * Radiation King Assembly Plant 12 (formerly)
 * Radiation King Georgetown

Known products

 * Three types of television sets
 * Ham radios
 * Radios
 * Jukeboxes

Appearances
Radiation King products appear in Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 4 and Fallout 76. A store makes an appearance as a location in Fallout 3, while a Radiation King factory that was taken over by the U.S. Army appears in Fallout 76.

Behind the scenes

 * The Radiation King is one of several Matt Groening references in the Fallout series. The Radiation King refers to Homer Simpson's childhood television set as seen in episode 10 of season 06, "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy". The joke references how some 1st-generation, vacuum tube-powered TV sets (particularly a line of early color TVs produced by General Electric) were later found to be poorly shielded and emitting levels of X-ray radiation far in excess of modern safety standards. This is shown in the episode by how Homer's childhood shadow has been permanently burned into the floor and wall of his childhood home, and is still there 30 years later.
 * The Radiation King TV sets that are found in Fallout 3' s pre-War house theme as well as throughout the wasteland are identical to the real world television set, The Philco Predicta, which was the most iconic television set of the 1950s.