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Old 11-18-2017, 12:27 PM
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Early Color Television in Detroit

This probably won't be of any interest to those outside of Michigan, but I'm posting it anyway for folks like Dave and Dwight.

I took the QLine from my apartment downtown to the Detroit Public Library (main branch on Woodward) yesterday afternoon. I went hunting throught he microfilm newspaper archives. I started with the Detroit Free Press, and managed to get check every Free Press paper from November of 1953 to April of 1955 for any interesting or important references to color television in the Motorcity. A lot of the material is from the Associated Press, UP, etc and would likely have appeared in all of the other major newspapers in the country. Nonetheless, I've included those mentions as well.

I'll be returning soon to check the Detroit News. I'm expecting to find more color TV advertisements and mentions in the Detroit News, as WWJ-TV (Channel 4), the longtime NBC affiliate in Detroit, was owned by the Evening News Association.

The following is not an exhaustive collection of references found as many of them were single sentence blurbs in the business section, but it is fairly representative.

The first article is from November 1, 1953, the last in this post is from January 17, 1954:
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