In March 1954, RCA rolled out the world's first mass-produced color TV set, unveiling a product with a strong local hue: A revolutionary color picture tube that was largely developed -- and ...

What the public was watching, albeit in monochrome, were over-the-air tests of a color-television system being developed by the network’s parent company, RCA. Executives at NBC had hired the ...

Among other notable achievements, for instance, RCA was instrumental in the development of NTSC standards for color TV — one of the most important advancements in TV history. RCA actually ...

RCA's CT-100 was the first color-TV set for consumers. It offered low quality at a high price. Courtesy RCA __1954: __RCA begins production of its first color-TV set for consumers, the CT-100.

Only a few thousand people actually saw the parade in color on TV that day. For the occasion, RCA built a special run of only 200 color sets-designated the Model 5 (the prototype number)-for the NBC ...

When the FCC and the National Television Standards Committee made RCA’s color transmission standard the official one, Sarnoff took out full-page newspaper ads declaring his “great victory.” ...

In March 1973, electronics manufacturer RCA Corporation touted its “new low-price color TV” in the New York Times. The cost was $379.95 for a 15-inch model ­— the equivalent of a $2,694.32 ...