First ever color TV broadcast, 1958

[JAB]

First ever color TV broadcast, 1958

Video: 32 seconds

https://twitter.com/historyinmemes/status/1583487822987956224

[Eli the Bearded]

Post by JAB
First ever color TV broadcast, 1958
Video: 32 seconds
https://twitter.com/historyinmemes/status/1583487822987956224

First comment corrects it to "first ever live color TV broadcast".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_television

The first network broadcast to go out over the air in NTSC color was
a performance of the opera Carmen on October 31, 1953.

The full history there includes earier broadcasts that were not
"compatible" with older black and white sets, include CBS demos
beginning January 12, 1950 on a Washington, D.C. channel and a
mechanical television system demoed in 1938.

Elijah
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mechanical TV used moving parts to change the "pixels" illuminated

[JAB]

On Sun, 23 Oct 2022 01:03:28 -0000 (UTC), Eli the Bearded

Post by Eli the Bearded
First comment corrects it to "first ever live color TV broadcast".

Live in D.C., and recorded in California...first ever. Announcer
stated that...Tele--Television.

Tele - a combining form meaning "distant," especially "transmission
over a distance,"
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"Some people might confuse it that color first appeared in 1958.

Color TV was already famous in USA by 1958. Many shows / movies
already used to be telecast in color.

It's the live broadcast which was a first in 1958."
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Release date October 22, 1971

The Last Picture Show
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After discussing the proposed film with Orson Welles, his houseguest
at the time, Bogdanovich agreed with him that shooting the film in
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[Michael Trew]

Post by JAB
"Some people might confuse it that color first appeared in 1958.
Color TV was already famous in USA by 1958. Many shows / movies
already used to be telecast in color.
It's the live broadcast which was a first in 1958."

Even still, this wasn't popularized for several more years. CBS started
broadcasting all of prime-time in color circa 1965. I wonder how long
it took for all new broadcasting to be in color?

*I still own a couple of black and white televisions sets. They need to
be restored, which I used to do as a hobby. Perhaps I'll crack one of
them open, one of these days.

[JAB]

On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 17:40:46 -0400, Michael Trew

Post by Michael Trew
CBS started
broadcasting all of prime-time in color circa 1965. I wonder how long
it took for all new broadcasting to be in color?

Side Topic - Back then, people bought TVs from salespersons in my
area, which meant higher prices.

"Although all-electronic color was introduced in the US in 1953,[62]
high prices and the scarcity of color programming greatly slowed its
acceptance in the marketplace....The relatively small amount of
network color programming, combined with the high cost of color
television sets, meant that as late as 1964 only 3.1 percent of
television households in the US had a color set.....By the mid-1970s,
the only stations broadcasting in black-and-white were a few
high-numbered UHF stations in small markets, and a handful of
low-power repeater stations in even smaller markets such as vacation
spots.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_television#United_States

[JAB]

On Sun, 23 Oct 2022 01:03:28 -0000 (UTC), Eli the Bearded

NTSC

The first American standard for analog television broadcast was
developed by National Television System Committee (NTSC)[1] in 1941.
In 1961, it was assigned the designation System M.

In 1953, a second NTSC standard was adopted, which allowed for color
television broadcast compatible with the existing stock of
black-and-white receivers.

It is one of three major color formats for analog television, the
others being PAL and SECAM. NTSC color is usually associated with the
System M. The only other broadcast television system to use NTSC color
was the System J.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTSC

[JAB]

This was filmed LIVE on the Edward R Murrow show in 1956

https://twitter.com/alisonmartino/status/1585755326371880960

B&W Live