RCA's CT-100 was the first color-TV set for consumers. It offered low quality at a high price. Courtesy RCA __1954: __RCA begins production of its first color-TV set for consumers, the CT-100.

RCA’s public relations department soon began referring to McNamara as “Miss Color TV,” a deliberate effort ... both over-the-air and on a closed-circuit link between its New York studios ...

The contestants included RCA ... closed-circuit image from three color cameras stationed along the route. But technical achievements were one thing; the commercial potential of color TV was ...

A closed-circuit ... of broadcast TV in the 1930s, so too were people envisioning different ways to utilize closed-circuit television in the 1950s. And with the emergence of color television ...

Among other notable achievements, for instance, RCA was instrumental in the development of NTSC standards for color TV — one of the most important advancements in TV history. RCA actually ...

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.