Our family got a colour TV for Christmas in 1968. Growing up in northern Saskatchewan in the Canadian Prairies we got one channel - CBC. The programs that were broadcast on the national feed were in colour. As an 8-year old I was thrilled to watch the Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Hour and Wonderful World of Disney in colour. However, all local programming (out of CKBI-TV in Prince Albert) was in black and white. This included the after-school kids' shows like Rocky & Bullwinkle & Underdog reruns as well as the news, talent shows, local talk shows and all the rest of the home-made looking fodder common to Canada in the late 60's. So, half the time our colour TV was in black & white.
In 1970, I won an RCA Color "portable" from a radio station. The called the contest the "Color Code", and you had to identify a scrambled song. I used my tape recorder to record that week's clue and then played it backwards, identifying it as "Promises, Promises" by Dionne Warwick. It was a thrill going to the radio station to pick up my color TV. It looked a good bit like this YouTube video version. That TV served well for a few years until I got bit by the "Trinitron" bug and had to have one of those. By that time, I was working and making enough money to splurge on such an item.
1963. My mother won it on a TV game show called "Window Shopping." It may well have been an Admiral like this.
I loved the transition from B&W to COLOR! TV It was so exciting...the colors seemed to burst out of the TV...it was all intentional to pop the colors on TV filming sets and the costumes...
