television at the Olympics...

[ceebee23]

folks,

I think it is generally agreed that the first Olympics to be televised were the 1936 Berlin Olympics using a 180 line intermediate film film system (later adapted by Baird for his 240 line UK broadcasts). I have a vague feeling some experimental stuff was done in LA in 1932 but what were the first Olympics broadcast in colour?

I would expect it was the Mexico games in 1968 ...but maybe the 1964 Tokyo games were broadcast in colour ..at least in Japan?

For us in Australia colour came to the Olympics in 1976 at Montreal.

We won't mention the mess the NBC seems to be making of the current games ...despite digital television and the internet!