Info about 1970's broadcast "look"?

[Sandy G]

I thought the initial video in this thread-W/Curtis Mayfield from '72 looked really, really good... The colors weren't over saturated,didn't look like the "Gain" was turned up too high, it to me looked like whoever was the engineer on both ends really knew his stuff. I've often heard in the earlier days of color broadcasting getting Black people right was difficult, because there weren't that many initially, & you could have the infamous "Blue Banana" problem if you weren't careful. But by '72, that looked to be in the past. I DO remember that we went to the 1964-65 NYC World's Fair, & of course, I HAD to see my family on COLOR TV in the RCA exhibit, I was upset when my Dad's face was a nice shade of lime green sherbet, & me & my mom's faces were sort of yucky looking oatmeal.... But God only knew how long those TK-40s & CTC-16s had been running w/o breaks, too...