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Hey W.B., thanks for posting. I always enjoy your comments on color broadcasting as it seems we both have similar interests.
Regarding early ABC colorcasting, as I mentioned in my previous post, ABC starting colorcasting in the fall of 1962. Back then, any and all ABC color was from film only as no live color facilities were available. ABC apparently did go with the GE PE-24 generation color film camera systems but AFAIK, these were not available until circa 1964. I am curious as to what they used in 1962 and how they broadcast their color film programming. Attached are a couple of scans regarding the startup of ABC colorcasting in the fall of 1962. All are from c. from Broadcasting Magazine. The dates of the jpg images are the dates of the magazines. |
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After the U.S. started regularly scheduled color broadcasts, who was next? I recall reading that channel 12 in Havana bought some RCA color gear prior to 1958.
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I don't know exactly who was next but Japan was the third country to start regular color casts in 1960 I think.
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Here is a link to some very good information on early ABC and CBS color broadcasting:
http://www.novia.net/~ereitan/studios.html Scroll down and read "Studio 72" under CBS color studios, and under ABC color studios, scroll down and read "Hollywood Palace". Interesting info about the first two years of ABC colorcasting and CBS colorcasting. |
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Reading old Broadcasting Magazines from the '50s, it appears that there was one main reason why CBS discontinued color broadcasting... money. CBS executives were quoted as saying they would only broadcast a show in color if the advertisers paid the extra costs involved in color broadcasting. NBC/RCA was using the color broadcasts more as a loss leader to get more color TV sets in homes. As time passed, color sales in the '50s weren't at the levels that would sustain advertising at the level CBS wanted, so they quit broadcasting color.
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CBS Color Red Skelton
The Red Skelton Show was done in color with his own RCA cameras as early as 1956 I believe; I remember the announcer saying "LIVE In Color....The Red Skelton Show" before just about all of his shows beginning that year. Some weeks that announcement was not made so I assume the show was in b&w. He had some of the earliest color equipment in Hollywood I remember reading. I think his own prodction company owned the equipment and not CBS in the beginning.
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The Australians were introduced to Color (excuse me I meant "Colour" ) TV in 1975, in a way that only the Aussies could do. (OK, maybe the British too)
Can you imaging this airing on U.S. Television in 1975??? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR6ETsZnto8 "Where's the Poop Deck"? "Under the Crows Nest". |
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Here's Wikipedia's take on Cuban color TV: "Cuba in 1958 became the second country in the world to introduce color television broadcasting, with Havana's Channel 12 using the NTSC standard and RCA equipment. But the color transmissions ended when broadcasting stations were seized in the Cuban Revolution in 1959, and did not return until 1975, using equipment acquired from Japan's NEC Corporation, and SECAM equipment from the Soviet Union, adapted for the NTSC standard." -Steve D.
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Japan and Europe thumbed their nose at our trade embargo. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce estimates American businesses have lost $1.2 billion in potential sales. I've seen equipment made by a Japanese competitor of my former biomedical electronic employer in film footage of a Cuban hospital.
It's really cool seeing all the old pre-embargo American cars still proudly maintained down there. I haven't seen any photos of TV's, however. |
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Wow... that intro to colour in Australia was hilarious! I doubt it would have received many good reviews in the States in '75.
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Haha you's caught onto the Aunty Jack Show take on the switchover to colour in Australia, hilarious and whacky isn't it? lol This ABC's (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) comedic switchover to colour around midnight on 1st March 1975. The characters seen are from a rather out there ABC comedy show called "The Aunty Jack Show" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aunty_Jack_Show which ran from 1972 to 1974 and they had a spinoff in 1975 in colour called "Wollongong The Brave", and of course Aunty Jack is the butch lady with the moustache who has the famous line "I'll rip your bloody arms off". So anyone who is curious about that show and likes out there slapstick humour, search "Aunty Jack" on YouTube and you'll find plenty of clips. Also to mention, that show has pretty much put my hometown Wollongong on the map as the show was based in my area! A lot of our programs back then were real light hearted and we didn't take ourselves too seriously and even our soaps had a lot of comedy in them too .
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