So sad to read of Ed Reitan's passing... such an immense loss ....

Oh so sad. Where did you read this and is there any more info on this? Please post a link if possible.

Here is a link to information on the Early Television Museum site..

http://earlytelevision.org/ed_reitan.html

so very sad...

HATE to hear of this...

May he rest in Peace.

Whoa, that was unexpected.

It is a real shame to loose a member of the community who has contributed so much.

so much knowledge in one person (a blessed one) rip

Sad to hear about Ed. Another great memory of the things we love in vintage electronics Gone. RIP Ed.

I did not meet the man, but did speak with him on the phone. A very sad loss for the industry and community.

Sincere condolences to his family and friends.

Ed was one of those guys who kept the history of television alive. His website had compiled just about anything you wanted to know about the early development of color television. He will be greatly missed

Another walking talking encyclopedia gone forever... RIP

Sincere condolences to Margaret and family.

My sincere condolences to his family. True, a person who knew so much gone...

I hope things are in the works to archive his websites and any other notes he
may have with regards to his tv work.....

Rest in peace.....

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Wow, he lost a lot of weight! What did he die from, I hadn't heard.

We have copied his website and added to the ETF site.

We have copied his website and added to the ETF site.

Steve, thank you for the copy. I'm very sad about Ed's passing. I learned much from his website and it led to further study of all things color TV. The quest for knowledge continues. He filled in many facts about the CBS system, and early NTSC experiments.
RIP Ed Reitan. You will be missed.
Kevin

I'll think of Ed being up there with the greats who were instrumental in making color TV a reality.
RIP Buddy
Phil

Very sad news indeed.

Yes, how sad to hear of Ed's passing. It's fortunate that ETF is able to archive his website, which is a good resource. Here's the new URL for those who like to bookmark such things:

http://www.earlytelevision.org/Reitan/index.html

Thanks to Steve for providing that service.

Phil Nelson
Phil's Old Radios
http://antiqueradio.org/index.html

IIRC that website was hosted by another company which sold out, and wiped the site data so fast that Ed never had a chance to properly back it up, and for a few years the rebuilt site was a shell of it's former self since Ed had no way of getting back the lost data. Then about a couple of years back someone who had downloaded the whole site months to weeks before it was lost came forward, and Ed along with the ETF restored it, and gave a new home it on the ETF web servers to preserve the wealth of information on Ed's recovered site.

A very sad loss of a prominent television researcher, engineer, and historian. Ed Reitan was a superb teacher, engineer, and preservationist of early TV history, his specialty being early USA and worldwide Color Television history. His website is one of the best teaching tools on early TV history, that I recommend it to all interested people as a key resource. As I do Videokarma and a few other sites. This world is blessed we had Ed Reitan, but very saddened he is no longer with us. A salute to a superb historian, engineer, and great all around human being. I learned more from Ed than I can ever repay to mankind, he was that full of knowledge on his field.

I thought that was actually Pete Deksnis's Ct100 site.


IIRC that website was hosted by another company which sold out, and wiped the site data so fast that Ed never had a chance to properly back it up, and for a few years the rebuilt site was a shell of it's former self since Ed had no way of getting back the lost data. Then about a couple of years back someone who had downloaded the whole site months to weeks before it was lost came forward, and Ed along with the ETF restored it, and gave a new home it on the ETF web servers to preserve the wealth of information on Ed's recovered site.

Yes, it was Pete's. But we also downloaded Ed's site just after his death and put it on the ETF site since we didn't know how long it would be up.

I am sad to hear this. I met Ed as he had a house in Omaha, and got to see some of his sets. He was a really nice guy.