Early color TV in Italy

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I found some interesting publish rare pictures relating to the advent of color TV in Italy. As you can see, up from 1968, Rai was able to send color broadcasts and begin testing, including comparative between the various systems NTSC, PAL and SECAM. using RCA equipment (TK 41). On the Rome area radiates the first experimental signals to NTSC color. Then everything was frozen due to economic crisis in Italy and the obtuseness of political leaders.
The tests resumed later in 1975 with equipment Philips (LDK 3). In practice Rai for years had the color TV programs and broadcast them in black and white and color broadcasts coming from abroad, such as football matches. Typical Italian paradoxes. Not to mention the waste of money in studies to equip color broadcasts in 1968 and then not use them for years.