June 25th - An Historic Day for TV

[Ty_Tanium]

Out of all the days in our yearly calendar, June 25th turned out to be hugely historic for broadcast TV. Some important trivia facts for you. Just think of the impact these two events had:

1) On this day in 1951, the first ever Color TV broadcast was made by CBS in Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, & Washington DC.of a variety show called "Premiere".

2) 16 years later to the day in 1967 the BBC orchestrated the first ever world-wide broadcast of a TV show called "Our World" which was seen in 24 different countries around the world.

June 25th - A day to be grateful in the AV community.

 

[Todd Anderson]

Yes, indeed!!!

I'd love to have been there in 1951 to experience that revolution in technology. Talk about mind blowing...

and look where we are today! Leaps and bounds better. Crazy

 

[tripplej]

 

[Ty_Tanium]

Thanks for the clip! Some interesting facts in there.

 

[JStewart]

Wow, 1951. I was a kid in the mid to late 60s and I sure don’t recall a lot of color TVs around, so I thought I check what the gpt had to say when I asked it what percentage of us households had a color tv in 1966, 15 years after that broadcast.

In 1966, approximately 17.3% of U.S. households had a color television.

Color TV adoption was still in its early stages during the mid-1960s. The growth accelerated after 1965, when major networks began broadcasting more programs in color, and prices of color TVs started to drop. Here’s a rough timeline for context:

• 1954: RCA introduces the first color TV set.
• 1960: ~1% of U.S. households had color TVs.
• 1966: ~17.3%
• 1972: ~50%
• 1980: ~80%

By 1966, NBC was broadcasting nearly all its prime-time content in color, which helped boost demand.

Just 17% a decade and 1/2 later. Can you possibly imagine a new tech rolling out that slowly today?? It’s crazy the speed things happen at now!

 

[Ty_Tanium]

Ya, the farther back you go in years the more people were stuck in their ways and didn't want to see much change. On top of that, I remember my parents saying a color TV just cost too much. Some of our neighbors were better off and they got color TVs years before we did. But when we did, it almost like watching TV for the first time again. A lot more fun to watch.