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Whose first?
An article from the Dec. 31, 1953 N.Y. Times reads as follows:
FIRST ADMIRAL COLOR TV
"Admiral Corporation introduced yesterday it's first color television receiver. It has a fifteen-inch tube and will retail for $1,175. Also added to the company's line were several new black-and-white receivers, including a twenty-one-inch model to list for $179.95. Joe Marty Jr., general manager of Admiral's electronic division, said the company expects to turn out 30,000 color television sets next year."
I have researched this announcement from Admiral and have yet to come across a single Admiral ad or other promotion for the sale of these sets. I think it was more hype then happening. At least one 15" Admiral color set does still exist. There is no record of when it was first sold. Or how many were produced. There was also a "Little fuse" co. ad that pictured the Admiral 15" color. Many companies produced prototype color sets for demonstrations and testing. Westinghouse still, IMO, marketed the first consumer color set in any volume in Feb. 1954.
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