Inside The First RCA Color Trailer

On January 4, 2014 - TV History

A Rarity…Inside The First RCA Color Semi Trailer

A few days ago we saw the first RCA Color trucks at their 1954 debut at the Rose Parade. Those were the large bus type vans, but I think the tractor-trailer version came along in late 59 or early 60. The photo on the left is the only one I can remember seeing that showed any part of the inside of these trucks. That photo is from August of 1960 at Fenway Park, courtesy of Maureen Carney. The photo on the right is from later that year and shows the truck in Mobile, Alabama at The Senior Bowl.


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4 Comments

  1. Maureen Carney January 4, 2014

    RCA was helping WHDH in broadcasting Red Sox games in 1960 in color with 4 TK-41 cameras. It was found that the TK-41 was not sensitive enough for night games so WHDH went back to black & white until the 1967 season. I know that WLWT did have a color unit for Reds games around this time as well.

  2. Bruce Hansen January 4, 2014

    I see tubes.

  3. Craig Harper January 4, 2014

    Would RCA do remotes for only NBC or were they rental hardware for anyone to promote color?

  4. Steve Byrd January 4, 2014

    Back in the days when 3 networks were all that mattered, they’d be open to showing college football all-star games in late January. Nowadays, with the advent of cable, such well-established events as the East-West Shrine Game and the Senior Bowl end up on the NFL Network.