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probably because most European countries had state owned TV networks and they were reluctant to spend money on color equipment (that's not just cameras and studio equipment, but also the nationwide distribution network, $$$$$)
Most other European countries got official color TV broacasts in 1967 or 68, but since we're Italians, we had to wait another decade, until 1977 when official PAL color programming began in Italy, before that, politicians were fighting over PAL and SECAM color standards and as a result many PAL sets were sold with optional SECAM decoders.
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