The first color television show was broadcast by NBC in the 1960s.
The first commercial color TV program was broadcast by CBS on June 25, 1951.Most people had only black-and-white TVs.
In 1950, there were two companies vying to be the first to create color TVs.The CBS system was approved by the FCC despite the low picture quality of the RCA system.
With the approval from the FCC on October 11, 1950, CBS hoped that manufacturers would start producing their new color TVs only to find most of them resisting production.The more hostile the manufacturers became, the more CBS pushed for production.
There were three reasons why the CBS system was disliked.It was too expensive to make.The image flickered.It would make the 8 million sets already owned by the public obsolete since it was incompatible with black-and-white sets.
RCA needed more time to perfect their rotating-disk technology, they were working on a system that would be compatible with black-and-white sets.In an aggressive move, RCA sent out 25,000 letters to television dealers condemning them for selling CBS's "incompatible, degraded" televisions.CBS's advancement in the sale of color TVs was slowed by the lawsuit.
CBS started "Operation Rainbow" to popularize color television.Large groups of people might gather in places where the company placed TVs.If CBS had to make its own TVs, it would.
The color TV war was won by RCA.The FCC approved the system on December 17,1953.The program was broadcast to television sets in three colors: red, green, and blue.The bandwidth needed to broadcast color programming was minimized by the RCA.
To prevent black-and-white sets from becoming obsolete, they were created that could be attached to black and white sets.The black-and-white sets could be used for decades to come.
The first color program was a variety show.Many of the celebrities featured on the show hosted their own shows in the 1950s.
The premiere aired in four cities: Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C.The first program was a success despite not being true to life.
On June 27, 1951, CBS began airing the first regularly scheduled color television series, "The World Is Yours!"with Ivan T.The program featured artifacts and animals from Sanderson's travels, as he spent most of his life traveling the world and collecting animals.The world is yours.On weeknights, it was aired from 4:30 to 5 p.m.