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Originally Posted by John Hafer
Referring back to the second post on this thread regarding Ed Reitan's site, I have a question: He states ABC only had a single RCA TK-26 film chain in CA back in 1962 for 2 years. I lived out east in Syracuse back then. How did ABC show the Jetsons and Flintstones in color from their New York broadcast center? When did ABC increase their color film equipment in NY for their 1963 -1964 season when they added showing Wagon Train, The Greatest Show on Earth and the Sunday Hollywood Special movies in color?
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One can only presume ABC in Hollywood shipped videotape dubs of such color presentations to New York for transmission. Or else went microwave. Or high-grade telco.
I think it was indeed around the 1963-64 period that ABC New York acquired color film chains - I've seen ads to the effect that the New York facilities had General Electric PE-24 chains. Certainly in the 1964-65 season, WABC-TV in New York began showing feature films in color, on their late-night
Best of Broadway movie umbrella - and began to give rival WCBS-TV's
The Late Show a run for its money, to the point that starting in mid-1965 WCBS itself began showing color films in color (mirroring the CBS network's own commitment to color starting in the 1965-66 season).
While ABC's Sunday movies began in spring 1962 as
Hollywood Special, it was around the fall of 1962 that it first bore
The Sunday Night Movie title which would also be applied when it was more successfully brought back in 1964 (then modified in 1967 to
The ABC Sunday Night Movie).