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.

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 ...

“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.

On New Year’s Day 1954, NBC became the first US broadcasting company to provide a coast-to-coast color transmission of the Tournament of Roses parade to TV viewers across the country. Catch a ...

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.

A decade before "Gilligan's Island" hit the airwaves, NBC became the first U.S. network to transmit a coast-to-coast color transmission, broadcasting the Tournament of Roses parade in Pasadena ...