Vintage clip on YouTube about compatible colour television

[Aussie Bloke]

I found an interesting clip on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojJCJIaDp9Q which is an announcement of compatible colour television by a NBC spokesman which aired during the Sid Caesar Hour in 1955. He announced that RCA has won the colour compatible television standards fight over CBS sequential field colour system and that the colour TVs are soon available for purchase. I personally would say this clip would date 1953 not 1955.

[Joel Cairo]

Yes, this clip is actually from 1953-- here's an excerpt from Ed Reitan's web site, which verifies that:

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December 17, 1953
NBC was the first to broadcast a color signal after approval by the FCC of the RCA-pioneered standards for compatible color. (NBC was the first to colorcast the still NBC "Chimes" logo at 5:31:17 P.M. using NTSC, not RCA, standards. But CBS had the first live color program on the air at 6:15 P.M. featuring Rocky Marciano, using its Chromacoder cameras. NBC followed at 6:30 P.M. with a special program with Pat Weaver, General David Sarnoff, and Jimmy Durante)

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-Kevin