First Color TV - CBS Sunday Morning 3/25/2001

First Color TV - CBS Sunday Morning 3/25/2001

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• First
• Color
• TV
• CBS
• Sunday
• Morning
• 3/25/2001

[richardmcboingboing]

who the hell is in that 1%?

[jebug29]

lol. My Grandparents bought a color tv many years ago and someone came over to watch a movie. Well, the movie was in black and white. He said, "Ya'll done bought a piece of junk! It's still in black and white!" XD

[teddydc2]

I can't imagine life without color.

[Sheri451]

I can't remember when there wasn't color on TV. The first TV program I can remember watching was Captain Kangaroo.My Momther said I called it the jingle bells show,

[JugheadObama]

@jebug29 there's no fooling those Obama voters!

[radiodj1520]

I Believe This Was A VIdeo Clip Of CBS News' Sunday Morning's Almanac Report On First Color TV On Sunday Morning, March 25, 2001.

[catholicpriest1]

NBC filmed and broadcast Bonanza in color to help sell RCA color television sets. RCA owned NBC at the time.

[catholicpriest1]

Notice that they didn't say that the CBS mechanical color system lost out and the NBC electronic system won. Kind of like Betamax and VHS.

[Matt571]

I am surprised the FCC decided to adopt the CBS colour system as it was incompatible with the RCA black and white standard. From the photos I have seen, the CBS system wasn't as good as the RCA/NBC system.

[Teflon65]

Actually, the Columbia system of color TV was adopted before the RCA system. Columbia had mechanical color TVs (with a spinning color wheel inside the sets), and several TV stations, which broadcast a few shows in this format, on the east coast only. Shortly thereafter, RCA's all-electronic color TV format was adopted.