[Telecolor 3007]

B.t.w., in those early days Soviet tv sets where extremly expensive for the Romanian buyer. "Rekord" had a price of. aprox. 4488 lei, in the days when a sallary (income) was around 300-500 lei. And in 1957 you had to have special aproval to buy a tv set. You had to be a Party member, member of the regular or secret police, foremost people in industry, Artist of the People.
In 1957 there where about 2,588 in Bucharest (and maybe some 200-300 more in areas of 60-100 k.m.s from Bucharest *), in 1958 13,831 and in 1959 in Regions of Bacău and Iaşi (Jassy) - a broadcater was put there in 1959 some 15,000 tv sest where salled. In 1960, in the are covered by television network (I think about 1/4-1/6 of the country) there where about 50,000 tv sets. In 1980 there where 4,000,000 tv sets in Romania and still not all people owned a tv set.

* the broadcasting station from Bucharest covered a range of about 100 k.m.s.