Bugün öğrendim ki: Pittsburgh'daki bir PBS istasyonu olan TV istasyonu WQEX, 1985'te Kuzey Amerika'da yalnızca siyah beyaz yayın yapan son televizyon istasyonuydu. Sadece vericileri bozulduğu ve yedek parçaları artık yapılmadığı için renkliye dönüştüler.

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In July of 1928, John Logie Baird made history. The Scottish inventor dismounted the first color television transmission. He had already made his mark on the medium in 1924, having successfully transmitted the first television image, a shot of his ventriloquist dummy, Stooky Bill. In 1938, Baird shook the world again, making the first color television broadcast. Of course, it would take decades for the advancement to reach the masses. The 1966–67 television season would be the first in which the three major networks broadcast their primetime lineups in full color. But not all networks were equal in their march to the full color spectrum. NBC was continually ahead in the game, thanks to the fact it was owned by RCA, which manufactured the color cameras for studios and color sets for homes. Meanwhile, in a sort of precursor to the VHS vs. Betamax war, CBS held out, as the company tried to push its own partially mechanical "field-sequential color system" of broadcasting color. The slow transition from black