Compatible Color TV Announcement…December 19, 1953

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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 …

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6 Comments

  1. David Fell August 4, 2014

    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).”

  2. David Breneman August 4, 2014

    Wow, a black and white set “as little as $239” That’s about two thousand dollars in today’s money.

  3. Randy West August 2, 2014

    That Don Briggs is s-m-o-o-t-h!

  4. Richard C. Mensinger August 2, 2014

    Thomson sold RCA to a Chinese company two plus years ago.

  5. Mark Heller August 2, 2014

    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!

  6. Richard C. Mensinger August 2, 2014

    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.