{"id":25218,"date":"2014-08-02T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T10:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=25218"},"modified":"2016-10-23T17:31:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T21:31:25","slug":"compatible-color-tv-announcement-december-19-1953your-show-of-shows-was-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=25218","title":{"rendered":"Compatible Color TV Announcement&#8230;December 19, 1953"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/December-17-1953...FCC-Approves-RCA-Color-A-First-Hand-Account-Thursday-after.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nCompatible Color TV Announcement&#8230;December 19, 1953<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Your Show Of Shows&#8217; was NBC&#8217;s top rated show and that&#8217;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&#8217;s Dot Sequential System. Richard Harkness reports.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ojJCJIaDp9Q\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ojJCJIaDp9Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"1953 Compatible Color TV Announcement\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ojJCJIaDp9Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Airing during Sid Caesar&#8217;s &#8220;Your Show of Shows&#8221;, NBC spokesman Richard Harkness announced that RCA had won the &#8220;compatible color television&#8221; standards fight &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/710656358971916\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compatible Color TV Announcement&#8230;December 19, 1953 &#8216;Your Show Of Shows&#8217; was NBC&#8217;s top rated show and that&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}