Color TV debuted 72 years ago today — June 25, 1951.
#EdSullivan hosted PREMIERE, the first commercially sponsored color show (on 5 CBS affiliates).
Few saw it, because color sets weren’t on sale yet! And CBS’s color broadcasts were incompatible w/ B&W TVs.
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@willmckinley Coincidentally, that was also the year my Grandmother started saying "that thing will rot your mind!"
Turns out, she was right.
