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The NBC Color Caravan Story…June 9 – August 11, 1954

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RARE! The NBC Color Caravan Story…June 9 – August 11, 1954

Some have heard about this, but for those that haven’t, we finally have the NBC Chimes Magazine article from August of ’54, thanks to our friend Dicky Howett in The UK.

RCA and NBC were proud as peacocks with their new color abilities and took the first two color trucks on the road for a month of live colorcasts that were carried on ‘Today’ and ‘The Home Show’.

On July 9, a crew of eighteen men did the tour’s first color remote from St. Louis as the local stations and major department stores along the way were pre stocked with RCA color monitors and sets for sale and display. The cities they visited also included Milwaukee, Chicago, Columbus, Cleveland, Washington DC, Baltimore and Ft. Meade Maryland. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee




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3 responses to “The NBC Color Caravan Story…June 9 – August 11, 1954”

  1. Don Langford

    I used a “TK-41” For the Apollo 11 Recovery and I was very high on a special platform the Navy built above the Bridge and the up and down of the ship hitting waves made the camera balance very bad, very front heavy and then back heavy. But it was way to much FUN. Don (Peaches)

  2. Richard Oshen

    love the forklift “crane”

  3. Rick Bozeman

    Remember some of those colorcasts back then.

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