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My grandparents' beautiful wood console TV also had the more rare horizontal hold. I have many fond memories of watching Gunsmoke, Star Search, and Wheel of Fortune on the thing with my grandad.
Most do but as a higher-frequency (15kHz) oscillator, it has smaller components that don't drift as much and so the control is a trimmer inside only calibrated as often as a tube needs swapping. On transistor sets, that's like, never, so they glue the trimmer to avoid misadjustment during transport.