Compatible Color TV Announcement…December 19, 1953
‘Your Show Of Shows’ was NBC’s top rated show and that’s where they chose to make this announcement on Saturday night, December 19, 1953. The decision had come down from the FCC that Thursday afternoon and capped a multi year court battle which pitted the CBS backed Field Sequential System against RCA’s Dot Sequential System. Richard Harkness reports.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojJCJIaDp9Q
Airing during Sid Caesar’s “Your Show of Shows”, NBC spokesman Richard Harkness announced that RCA had won the “compatible color television” standards fight …
RCA was the king of electronics. The current RCA company is nothing more than a name. The name is now owned by a Chinese company. They have nothing in common with the RCA company of the past.
I loved the line…’and, you’ll get more for your trade-in’. Today, you have to pay to have stuff taken to the landfill!
Thomson sold RCA to a Chinese company two plus years ago.
That Don Briggs is s-m-o-o-t-h!
Wow, a black and white set “as little as $239” That’s about two thousand dollars in today’s money.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvBiufbKdfE
singing “both in compatible color, and black and white!”
This was the b-side of “Banana Boat (Day-O).”