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In Spain at least there was a lot of political dirty tricks going on in the background. Spain actually chose SECAM as their color system, then in 1969 there was a sudden switch to PAL, Germany gave a lot of aid to the Spanish government, and Thomson was sold General Eléctrica Española for next to nothing, as a consolation prize. Within a year all of the small Spanish companies who had been building TVs, either their own (pirated) designs or under license, just disappeared. Philco, Emerson, Sylvania, GE(E), Inter, Koster, and a bunch others. The only one remaining was Zenith, who adapted their NTSC sets and sold them here through the mid 1980s. Other than those, you had to buy a German or Dutch set.
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