When Did Your Family First Get a Color TV?

[CO Liberal]

My family got ours in 1959 - only because my dad worked for RCA, and got it on Employee Discount. At the time, only two stations in NYC were broadcasting in color part of the time - WNBC (Channel 4) and WOR (Channel 9 - now Superstation WWOR).

[Beaverhausen]

1. way after you...sometime in the early 70s I think

we were the last on our block. Last to get central air conditioning, too.

[mcscajun]

2. Mine never did. My dad was waiting "for it be perfected."

:rofl:

My first color TV was when I was first married in 1971.

[teach1st]

3. 1963, I think

We were not well off, but that TV made me feel rich. I wanted so badly to watch "The Wonderful World of Disney" in color.

[givemebackmycountry]

4. God I think I was like 17 and it was 1972

Prior to that he actually bought one of those things you pasted on the front of a black & white TV that made it "look" like a color TV.

U-G-L-Y

edited for spelling and because I was laughing so hard at the memory

[MADem]

5. The landing on the moon

...an event worth buying a color TV for!

[CO Liberal]

7. But the Video From The Moon Was in Black & White!!!

:-)

[MADem]

17. That wasn't the NASA plan, though

The cameras were lo-rez, though, at least one got burnt out, and the quality of the video sucked. It took several missions before they resolved those issues.

But the PROMISE, ahead of the event, was for color.

[yvr girl]

6. About 1972

[William Bloode]

8. I was from a pretty poor hillbilly family.

We did not get a color television untill like 1979. Not like there was anything to watch anyway, way up here back then you only got two(one was mostly preaching/church) channels, and theres still no cable.

[AlCzervik]

9. My dad stared his TV repair business in 1968 right when he got out of the

service so probably then.

[Zomby Woof]

10. 1973

Remember watching Walter Cronkite report Watergate every night... movies of the week, All In The Family, MASH, Odd Couple, etc...

And Saturday morning cartoons like Bugs Bunny!

[YankeyMCC]

11. About a year after we moved to the new house

1972 or 73

And we actually used the old Zenith BW into the early 80's as a second TV.

[Left Is Write]

12. We had a color TV when I was born.

That was 1966. We actually had TWO televisions - the color TV in the family room and the black and white in the living room.

My parents got an RCA television for their wedding in 1959. It was a console, black and white. It was a great TV, very well made. I used it in my first apartment in 1985, until I bought my own TV in 1986. I'm not sure what my folks wound up doing with the TV - I should have kept it - but it went at least 30 years.

[LibDemAlways]

13. Mid 60's for my family, but I recall

being invited to another kid's birthday party in 1960 where the big draw was getting to watch a program in color.

[Dave Reynolds]

14. I'm thinking 1970.

A Curtis Mathes, lasted until 1990.

[amazona]

15. i'm embarrassed to say it must have been 1970

I can remember watching the Apollo moon landing in black and white.

Those old 13 inch TVs from the 50s must have been immortal. It was still working when we gave it away to the trash collector. He asked if it was OK for him to keep it instead of putting it with the trash, and we said sure, that's why we didn't put it in the can.

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16. Around 1965 or so...

but, it was older than that. My family inherited it when my Grandfather passed away.

Thing was the size of a small truck, ran on diesel and had a bakelite "rabbit ear" antenna the size of deer antlers sitting on top.

When it finally died (late 60's/early 70's), we upgraded to a TV that got UHF!

Big perk there... Professional Wrestling!

[Orsino]

18. '75 or so.

Could have been as early as '73, maybe.