Any roundies in Canada?

[Robert Grant]

If I were to expect anyone to find a roundie in Canada, it would almost have to be quite close to the border.

Something I only learned recently: Canadian TV stations were forbidden to broadcast in color until 1966 (country #2 in color TV was Cuba!). Speculation has it that color was kept off the market to spare stations the cost of upgrading their equipment to compete (like the 1960-1983 AM stereo ban in the US).

Of course, when color TV just exploded in the US in the fall of 1965, it was about face, lest the CBC and CTV lose all their viewers to colorful American stations (much like Detroit talked about casinos for 30 years, but only got them after Windsor built theirs).

[Tom_Ryan]

Originally Posted by Robert Grant

If I were to expect anyone to find a roundie in Canada, it would almost have to be quite close to the border.

Something I only learned recently: Canadian TV stations were forbidden to broadcast in color until 1966 (country #2 in color TV was Cuba!). Speculation has it that color was kept off the market to spare stations the cost of upgrading their equipment to compete (like the 1960-1983 AM stereo ban in the US).

Of course, when color TV just exploded in the US in the fall of 1965, it was about face, lest the CBC and CTV lose all their viewers to colorful American stations (much like Detroit talked about casinos for 30 years, but only got them after Windsor built theirs).

Here's an interesting video clip from the CBC archives. The date was September 1966:

http://archives.cbc.ca/arts_entertai...cs/1631-11239/

The broadcasts originated on Channel 4, CBC in Ottawa (Canada's capital).