Color TV


In 1950 the Federal Communications Commission issued the first license for color TV broadcasting, to CBS.

Although the field-sequential color system developed by Dr. Peter Goldmark was the first color television system to be adopted for commercial use, it was abandoned a year later because its signal could not be received on ordinary black and white television sets without a special adapter.

Color TV sets first became available in American stores in December 1953.



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