Word: colorings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hailed as a prodigy, color TV is still a retarded child...
...five years since its ballyhooed debut in 1953, only 325,000 sets have been sold, v. 10 million black-and-white sets in the comparable first five years of TV broadcasting. Color telecasting still averages only 1½ hours a day, nearly all of it done by NBC alone. And the quality leaves much to be desired, even in the hands of dedicated knob twiddlers...
Setmakers blame the networks. "The most important reason for the lack of color television sales is the selfish attitude-the public-be-damned attitude-of the money-hungry, profit-hungry television networks [which] have refused to make any really serious effort toward heavy color programing," said Admiral Corp.'s President Ross D. Siragusa recently...
...networks blame the setmakers and dealers. "If those manufacturers who complain about our poor programing would sell color sets as energetically as we program color, there would be no problem in getting color further off the ground," snapped NBC's President Robert Sarnoff. But Sarnoff was admittedly an interested witness, since RCA. NBC's parent company, makes nearly all the color sets sold, and has by far the largest investment in color's success. CBS, which has no such involvement, admits it is not boosting color at the moment, has in fact cut its color programs nearly...
Fluorescent Figures. In an all-out attempt to put their color operation in the black, RCA launched a major sales drive last year, is still carrying it on. Trade-in offers brought RCA's lowest-priced $495 set down to $399.95. As a result, sales of color sets are up 30% this year over the same period in 1957, while sales of black-and-white sets are off 16%. (Snorted one dealer: "Well, sure-this year they are selling three sets instead...