What did broadcast color television look like in 1954 through 1957?

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Originally Posted by Electronic M

Probably why Zeniths had a push pull manual color killer assist switch on the chroma level knob for the first several years of roundys.

I also suspect there were cases where sets were used with deep fringe area signals, so the automatic color killer could be set to favor "color on" so that the color wouldn't flash on and off while the user "enjoyed" a very snowy color signal. The color could then be turned off on a known black and white signal.

I wonder how many calls there were to dealers/repair shops to complain of "no color" because the switch had been turned off.