UPDATE, JANUARY 1, 2020.
Since the beginning of this restoration, we have been wanting to create this video. Most of you know the story. For the record, the NTSC color format in the United States was formalized December 17, 1953 by the FCC, (Federal Communication Commission.) NBC broadcast the first nationwide color telecast on January 1, 1954, but no one was able to see the Tournament Of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California, in that year because no color sets were available to purchase except one set*. RCA and NBC however, arraigned to have public showings of the parade by invitation. Most showings were private for broadcast personnel, television industry dignitaries, friends and families. These viewing locations were typically at television stations, hotels, convention centers and movie theaters. A few television appliance stores had prototype RCA, Admiral, Westinghouse and Raytheon color sets available for the public to see on the day of the telecast.
Westinghouse as well as other manufacturers were in a race to bring to the public the first color television receivers for sale. *Admiral was the first with it’s C1617A on December 30, 1953. Twenty seven days after the first nationwide color telecast, (the parade) Westinghouse offered for sale on February 28, 1954, the H840CK15, initially only available in New York and New Jersey.
Today, January 1, 2020, 66 years after the first color telecast of the Rose Parade, it gives me great pleasure to present this video of the parade on one of the first available color television receivers available in the United States, the Westinghouse H840CK15. It uses the RCA 15GP22, the first production color CRT. I’m very thankful for Mike Doyle’s restoration abilities, completed September 30, 2019. Without his work this restoration would not be possible.
The video:
https://videos.files.wordpress.com/h...mg_6514_hd.mp4