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Catch a Glimpse of NBC’s 1st Color TV Broadcast

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On New Year’s Day 1954, NBC became the first US broadcasting company to provide a coast-to-coast color transmission of the Tournament of Roses parade to TV viewers across the country. Catch a glimpse of some of the sights your grandparents — or parents — may have seen on their tube sets at the time as recaptured in the RCA documentary “The History of Television.”