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NBC-TV 2-page ad, February 1955
NBC-TV 2-page ad touting their Saturday evening program line up, and in the lower right corner:
'Every 4th Saturday Max Liebman presents a 90 - minute "live" NBC COLOR SPECTACULAR' |
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It's cool that they mentioned the RCA ownership. I've never seen that an NBC ad before.
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Thank you for posting that brochure, old_tv_nut.
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I don't think many people saw NBC's 1955 color shows in color, as color TV was still a novelty in the 1950s. Only thing I can figure is RCA was using these shows to promote color TV programming produced under the RCA color standard.
CBS color didn't make it out of the gate. It wasn't until RCA's compatible color TV standard, in which color programs could be viewed directly as b&w, took hold that color television really took off in this country. The CBS color system flopped probably because it was not compatible with black-and-white televisions. What did viewers of CBS color shows actually see on their b&w sets, if they received a picture at all? I would think they would see a picture of some sort, as the stations would never hear the end of it if color programming produced a blank raster on black-and-white sets tuned to CBS color programming.
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Here are two ads that made the point more directly - more RCA ads than NBC ads per se. Last edited by old_tv_nut; 07-03-2014 at 10:07 PM. |
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Edit: the CBS scan rates were close enough to twice the NTSC monochrome rates that some monochrome receivers could be pulled to run at half the CBS rates, giving a tiling of four flickering images on the screen. Last edited by old_tv_nut; 07-03-2014 at 10:17 PM. |
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