Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hopeful start. The Federal Communications Commission, assembled in Manhattan last week for a look at the latest in color TV, saw the result of months of work by the National Television System Committee, representing major manufacturers and networks, whose job it was to develop compatible color j standards that FCC would approve...
...show what could be done. NBC, CBS and Du Mont each took a turn transmitting scenes ordered by FCC: NBC ran off a short variety show, then bounced | some color pictures to Washington, D.C. and back, alternating between coaxial cable and microwave relay: CBS concentrated on a brief outdoor scene; Du Mont showed some ultra high frequency color slides: NBC finished up with its own outdoor pickup. Hovering tensely over FCC during the programs was a Hues Who of experts, executives, engineers and designers. Among them: RCA Board Chairman David Sarnoff. who kept his eyes fixed...
...stations, about 14 miles apart in Monterey and Salinas, began beaming test patterns on the same channel (No. 8). It promised to be a friendly, take-turns arrangement. Monterey's KMBY-TV (one quarter owned by Bing Crosby) and Salinas' KSBW-TV had both applied to the FCC for the area's one open channel. Then they decided to pool forces rather than delay local television, perhaps for another year or so, while struggling through lengthy hearings. The FCC granted them its first share-time permit last February...
...announcement is not the final word. The FCC will hear any objections until Sept. 8, but the big networks and set manufacturers seem agreed that the time and the system are right. Although the method is the product of the three-year-old National Television System Committee, a technical group representing most of the major manufacturers, the victory is RCA's. Its "dot sequential" color system lost out to CBS's noncompatible "field sequential" system in 1950, but a 1951 defense order halting color-set production gave the N.T.S.C. time to perfect its own method...
...there is no opposition, the FCC's final adoption announcement (probably before the end of the year) will be the signal for full-scale manufacture of color sets, perhaps with some on the market within six months. Pioneering televiewers will pay $700 to $1,000 for the earliest models, but mass production is expected to bring prices down to 25-50% above the cost of comparable black & white sets. By the end of 1954, color TV ought to be available. Both CBS and RCA plan to start sample color telecasts this year...