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Originally Posted by Aussie Bloke
Still CBS could of purchased the early General Electric PE-15s that were much like the TK-41s.
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Only one problem: The color tubes were RCA's I-O's. The only reason, as I said, why CBS went color beginning in 1965 was, in essence, due to the development of Philips/Norelco's PC-60 camera - and that company's Plumbicon tubes, thus ending RCA's de facto monopoly on the color TV equipment market. (And beyond cameras, once other RCA equipment - such as 44BX and 77DX microphones - came up for replacement, they purchased mics from "other" companies as well.) ABC was another kettle o' fish - they didn't even have the money to upgrade to color, and when they finally did, they were in a financial hole for nearly a decade, with only well-rated sitcoms from the early 1970's period sustaining them.
Surprised Mr. Ellerbee didn't catch the erroneous assertion of
Dragnet having been on CBS . . .