“The network had no plan to use color at the Masters in 1966,” Chirkinian told Sports Illustrated. “It wasn’t in the budget.” Chirkinian, the king of innovation, knew color was a pipe dream.

Walt Disney's "Wonderful World of Color" began in 1961. The first color cartoons, the "Flintstones" and the "Jetsons," began in the fall of 1962. However, to baby boomers and their parents, one show ...

As well as being the reporter who took WMT-TV from black and white to color, Bruner also led the first midday news segment for the channel. He retired in 1982 and passed away in 1999 at the age of 81.

The first coast-to-coast color TV broadcast was the Jan. 1, ... In August 1954, New York residents - if they had a color television - could see only one color TV show, Arland recalls.

TV Show Publicizes Missing Persons Of Color While African Americans constitute only 13 percent of the population, ... The hope is that before the show's first season wraps in March, ...

This marked the first golf tournament to be carried on cable TV. In 1986, Jim Nantz, age 26, worked his first Masters for CBS. In 1988, Nantz was promoted to the role of host at age 28.

This notion led CBS to want to try out broadcasting one of their games in color. Additionally, CBS had been testing out color programming to begin with. Although few televisions were equipped to show ...

In the first few decades of television it was avoided at all costs. ... Bewitched followed in 1964 with Darrin and Samantha ...

67 years ago today, color television made its nationwide debut. The 1954 Rose Parade, an annual New Year’s Day event since 1890, was viewed by several thousand fortunate people who had access to ...

Frances Buss Buch, 92, television's first female director, who directed the first television talk show and the first color program, died Jan. 19 at a rest home near Hendersonville, N.C.

RCA CT-100 color TV. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the CTA (Consumer Technology Association), which started out as the RMA (Radio Manufacturers Association).This is the ...