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  • First ever color TV broadcast, 1958

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Fri Oct 21 20:04:55 2022
    First ever color TV broadcast, 1958

    Video: 32 seconds

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

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  • From Eli the Bearded@21:1/5 to here@is.invalid on Sun Oct 23 01:03:28 2022
    In misc.news.internet.discuss, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:
    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
    ------
    mechanical TV used moving parts to change the "pixels" illuminated

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to *@eli.users.panix.com on Sat Oct 22 22:07:29 2022
    On Sun, 23 Oct 2022 01:03:28 -0000 (UTC), Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:

    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

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to *@eli.users.panix.com on Sat Oct 22 22:04:17 2022
    On Sun, 23 Oct 2022 01:03:28 -0000 (UTC), Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:

    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,"
    ============================

    "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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    Sidebar

    Release date October 22, 1971

    The Last Picture Show
    ...
    ...
    After discussing the proposed film with Orson Welles, his houseguest
    at the time, Bogdanovich agreed with him that shooting the film in
    black and white would work aesthetically, which by then was an unusual
    choice

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

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  • From Michael Trew@21:1/5 to JAB on Tue Oct 25 17:40:46 2022
    On 10/22/2022 23:04, JAB wrote:

    "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.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to michael.trew@att.net on Tue Oct 25 18:15:54 2022
    On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 17:40:46 -0400, Michael Trew
    <michael.trew@att.net> wrote:

    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

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Thu Oct 27 20:17:19 2022
    This was filmed LIVE on the Edward R Murrow show in 1956

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

    B&W Live

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