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Originally Posted by vallieone
WPIX and color in the fall of '65 seems right, since they were the latecomer in the NY market. I recall their first colorcasts were the syndicated Bozo show and the color episodes of Superman.
WNEW's first colorcasts were Tomato Juice commercials and The Virginian on Movie Greats around that time also.
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WPIX actually started limited colorcasting in the spring of 1965, but WNEW didn't follow until the fall (the latter was the last NY commercial indie VHF to go color, with public-TV's then-WNDT the last New York area VHF to colorcast in 1967).
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Originally Posted by JB5pro
New York's channel 11 didn't get color til '65? I doubt that is true. Makes no sense unless I suppose it was not ABC, NBC or CBS?
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Hard to believe, though it is true. Though WNEW was the last NY commercial indie VHF to go color, they were the first of the indies - in 1966 - to have 24/7 live color studio capacity, with their acquisition of Norelco PC-70's. WOR and WPIX, by contrast, didn't have all-color local-originated programming until the latter half of 1967 (WPIX's newscasts were B&W as late as summer 1967, if TV Guide listings are of any indication; and pre-1967, WOR only had live studio color on their programs in off-season when the Mets weren't playing; both stations, when they went all-color all the time, went with General Electric PE-250's, and when WOR moved its studios in 1968 to 1481 Broadway, they replaced their RCA TK-26 color film chains with TK-27's which were already in use at WNEW and WPIX).