It's extra huge for a grinning idiot who's never studied this time frame yet can tell you all the stereotypes they've picked up from movies to fit into a time period that was actual in real life with real people, not a sitcom show in black and white.
A color TV of any kind is an expensive investment and was a status symbol of wealth. Imagine being the only kid in town that can watch NBC's "Disneyland in Color" in color...
Equivalent to when 4K tvs first came out. There were barely any media that was formatted to that back then but ppl bought the TVs regardless ag crazy price/size to fully utilize it in 3+ years when more shows/films/games uses 4K.
Crazy how our grand parents lived their life in black and white. I wonder how they matched their outfits. Good thing this color technology was invented
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar Ah yes, the great WitchKing of Angmar, clearly a man of humble descent, and doesn't call himself a king on the internet and clearly doesn't act like he knows everything, because of course, this wasn't the first time that channel went on color tv right? It wasn't a historical moment for that channel, or a historical moment for that time period because I'm gonna assume other channels went onto color around the same time, no? Forgive me great Witch King, for leaving such a foolish comment on a internet thread that I should've known you would be on. Get over yourself, Kingcunt of Angmar.
@@TheLukasDirector Like I said to the Great Witchking, this was around the time all channels went on to Color TV, and it's pretty cool being able to see the transition to color and how ground breaking it was for that channel, and the viewers watching it if they had a TV capable at the time, it was crazy back then being able to produce film in color and being able to report News in real time and color, and now we are able to watch it in our hands. How far we've come, this channel and many others.
Bob Bruner was a very respected newscaster and his little color joke was spot on. He used to co-anchor with Dave Shay, weather was Conrad Johnson and sports was Ron Gonder. Used to be Walter Cronkite at 5:30 and then local news at 6.
Engineer at KGAN here. Just held our 70th two weeks ago, many former workers came, including some who were there for this. I even dusted off the Dr. Max and Mombo puppets to display. Was a great time. Have a special we ran about our history that's on our station website, I suggest everyone to go see it. Which included this moment!
This seems to be from about ten years after I worked as a summer vacation replacement in 1958. Both WMT and WMT-TV had a great connection to the local community and were very well managed.
I used to go to the next door neighbors house to watch color TV. There were only a few color shows at first. Disney and Bonanza were on Sunday night back then.
Can't imagine what it would have been like to be seeing that from home for the first time in history. It doesn't seem like much now with all the 4k/8k displays out there, but it would have been so cool to experience it first hand. Still, I'm glad I was born in this generation 😂
You had to specifically buy a color television set in order to see this change happen before your eyes. Most of the TVs that were watching the show were in black and white and the change over to color didn’t change anything because they still had old TV sets.
And because you were born in this generation, you're going to see way, way more mind blowing stuff, yet to come, than you can imagine. And, no, I'm not talking about technology. Not at all.
@@sirllamaiii9708 maybe you're the one that needs to get a grip. Trust me, I can handle jokes, but I've seen so many leftists be serious when mocking whole groups they assume to be "racist". This is 2023 after all. Maybe you should stop living under a rock?
Apparently before the advent of color TVs, people used to dream in black & white. Not sure if it's a myth or not, but I find the prospect fascinating regardless.
If you were an older newsman in the 1960s you most definitely got your start in radio. Outside of the biggest US metro areas, non-print news was mostly received over the radio until the early 1950s.
@@arvetisI’m reporting live at the opening of the Roman colosseum where a crowd of fans looks on as a parade of lions and gladiators walks down the Via Claudia.
I just miss the sounds of the TV late at nite after you shut old TV's off. The clicks and the pops as you layed on your sleeping bag on a Friday nite as a kid.....excited about Saturday morning coming.
@@RAAM855 Having your friends sleepover on the living room floor in sleeping bags in front the ColorTrak Tv😇 Trying to stay up as late as you could while the credits rolled to some old war movie. The best times ever!
I graduated from HS in 1964. Moved to London (to attend college) that Summer. My parents, who only watched the Evening news and Ed Sullivan on Sunday night's, bought a color tv a month later. I haven't spoken to them since...just kidding. They had that Packard Bell floor console (with a cable remote control) for 21 years. I bought them a HUGE projection screen in '85. Where they could now watch the Evening news and 60 Minutes on Sunday night's. Now in 2023 (at the age of 96) they have a 65" flat screen (that my three children bought them). Where they watch the Evening news and...UA-cam videos...and reruns of Ed Sullivan as well as new episodes of 60 Minutes on Sunday night's.
As a person who has watched a BUNCH of these TV history videos I love how in this and most analog shutdown broadcasts the reporters are just like, “Okay that happened anyway here’s a woman who’s pancake looks like Harry Styles!”
This isn't even the first color televised platform. It was just big when any group got to switch to color but the first color broadcast was 1952. Imagine sheeny hair, full suits, a series of maroon, gray, biege, light blue, and mint cars, imagine a hustle of people dressed elegantly, and imagine that is color sprawled on your very own television.
Very few people caught it but he said something interesting in the beginning: the new set (and cameras) would also give a clearer picture on monochrome (block and white) television. So even though few would have had a color television more people would have benefitted from that change than that.
TVs were expensive for a ling time, especially color televisions. So while the networks offered color programming in ‘67 or by ‘68, there was a lag in adoption by the public. I bet it took 10 years or so. By then, one only bought a B/W television by accident or something like that, or for a portable.
Newscasters in that era considered it a privilege that you would watch their broadcast. Unlike modern "journalist" divas who believe they are somehow talented beloved Hollywood stars that speak only The Truth.
I Remember watching this changeover live in 1967 but we didn't get a color TV until 1974.....7 years later.....Bob Bruner was well respected when I was a kid........Conrad Johnson was a great wether man as well...
He mentions Governor Hughes who was Democratic governor of Iowa 1963-69. He refers to the Dubuque flood which occured April 1967, so this broadcast was sometime later that year; relatively late to switch to color. As a kid we didn't get a color set until 1975, but we were behind most others also
I find this so fascinating. I was born in 1969, and although we had a black & white TV, I wasn't alive when TV was all black & white. I get the impression that the news wasn't done with multiple cameras as it is now, because you see the guy walking to another desk.
@@ryanhilliard1620it's like op desperately wanted us to know that he barely paid attention to the video at all. But they also never paid attention when told there's only one space after punctuation so this follows a pattern.
Him adding an extra space after punctuation actually demonstrates that he did grow up in that era. A space after punctuation was usually added for formatting purposes while using a typewriter. Some instructors continued to require this spacing as computers became more commonplace. There was also a common opinion that the extra space improved readability, which has been largely abandoned. Unless you are using a specific writing format or following instructions to not use the extra space, there’s nothing that says you can’t add an extra space after a sentence. My guess is he learned to type on a typewriter, which became a habit that he’s never bothered to lose.
@@drunkentrainyup, I had a few teachers when I was younger than instructed us to double space after periods when typing on a computer. And I was born in the very late 90’s, so that persisted into the early to mid 2000’s. By middle school, no instructors were doing this anymore.
The reason there wasn’t a smooth transition was to show him walking over to the new color set before switching over to the color camera. You can see the color camera in the shot of the black and white camera after he walks over and they turn the set lights on.
In the US, all prime-time programming had gone to color by 1967, but news programs were the last b/w holdouts, with some smaller channels having monochrome local news even into the early 70s.
In 1964 I remember telling my mom I was going to friends house to watch tv because he had color. I also remember the tv guide that came in the Sunday paper would specifically say when shows were in color. Then after awhile they would specifically say when shows were black and white. Good times.
@@joshwilliams7692 You didn't really get a good answer. A colorbust was a very short, very high frequency (3.58mhz) pulse at the beginning of every line of a color TV picture. It served to re-synchronize the color circuits so the colors were correct. Also, it's presence denoted a color picture, and it's absence denoted a black and white picture. So, if a color set tuned into a B&W station, it wouldn't see the colorburst and would turn the color circuits off. In an era where stations had both B&W and color programs, they were supposed to turn off the colorburst on B&W programs. If they showed a B&W picture and forgot to turn off the colorburst, the set would look in vain for color information, sometimes interpreting static and film grain as color signals and the screen would show multi-colored confetti. PS: a black and white set watching a color program would see the colorburst but ignore it.
@@brothernumber1576 , the color burst has nothing to do with accommodating people who get seizures from certain visual stimuli. And the television accommodation of people who might get seizures from rapid flashing, which was discovered in players it video-games, didn't begin until the late 1990s.
I remember in about 1972 they had a 50th year on the air anniversary on WMT-AM and Bob Bruner (the newscaster in this video) was part of the roundtable discussion as he also worked on the radio side. At one point while they were discussing how things had changed over the years in radio and TV he said something like, “We would have been better off if people like Ed Sullivan had never introduced to America some of these rock acts like the Beatles.” He got a lot of immediate backlash from other guests on the program. But I suspect at that time it was a commonly held belief with the many older listeners. He was born in a different era. Very much the straight-up, no nonsense newscaster. Kind of boring but nowadays it’s all flash. He was a good guy.
Something in me wants to believe, that the family with the color tv went nuts that day. Everyone first distracted, then it happens and they just go OOOOOh!
Boy the stuffiness of the old-time delivery, wow. It takes me back. And he makes a poor attempt at a wise crack and makes a barely perceptible partial smile. That is so incredible to watch, realizing how radically far we’ve changed since then
When I was young, I asked my parents if the whole world itself was black and white before colour TV was switched on. And when it was the world transformed into glorious technocolor! Lol
Y2K kiddo here. It's so unfortunate that I can't "re-live" the genuine excitement about innovation and technological advancement. I witnessed the birth and mass-adoption of "Flatscreens" (which were a big deal in the late 2000s). These days it's a lot more about optimization and profit margining, which really isn't exciting... :c
Same here, also Y2K but I grew up with much older tech because I lived with my great grandparents with my mom, and we had like huge tube tvs and chunky wall phones. I was genuinely blown away when I saw a mobile phone, and I was like 6, in 2005. Then the iPhone came and it felt like I jumped hundreds of years in the future. If I could time travel to the past I'd wanna visit the late 60s and early 70s, maybe even the 90s just to see the revolutionary tech.
We didn’t get a color television in our house until the late 60’s. For all you millennials and gen x’ers out there spoiled with cable tv, there were only eight television stations in Chicago back then, VHF channels 2,5,7,9,11, and UHF channels 26,32 & 44. Broadcasting ended about 1am with the national anthem played and resumed about 6am with the playing of the national anthem. In between then you got to look at a crazy test pattern of a bunch of circles and squares with an Indianhead, why an Indian in full headdress, I don’t know. That is all we had back then and it seemed normal to us until you look back at it now. I guess the people who grew up with only radio before television came out said same thing.
Since I grew up with B&W I didn't even know it was black and white. It was just what I watched and I assumed it was normal...until I found out otherwise.
I know it's not what you mean, but they did choose outfits based on how they'd show up on B&W film. Some things that look fine in color are ugly or distracting in B&W. And the other way around, too. A lot of the clothes and makeup that looked great in B&W looked terrible in color/real life!
Things like this are what UA-cam should be. Little bits of history that would otherwise be lost. It's so sad the site has been reduced to mainstream media and ad revenue.
I remember getting our first TV in our home. I was 2 or 3 yrs old. It was a black and white TV. Watched Wizard of Oz. My brother who is 63 is still scared of the flying monkeys. I cried at every episode of Lassie. 😅😊
If they used small IO tubes for the chroma, they might have had half a chance with the '42. Trying to match vidicons with a 4" IO tube?! That's being terminally cheap, and they didn't pay their engineers enough for this s***
We had some TK-42's at WQAD and it wasn't uncommon during the evening newscast where the cameras would go out of registration and you would see 3 images.
I’m not sure if everybody knows this, but most of the TV sets during that time were still in black-and-white when this change happened. The picture didn’t change to color right before your eyes, you had to buy a specific television that could display in color. I myself had a small black and white television in my bedroom well into 1980. The downstairs TV was color, but small black-and-white TVs were much cheaper.
It's no wonder that most tv's were black and white _before_ there was any color on the tv broadcasts. No reason to invest in a very expensive color tv to be the only one who has it, and nothing but black and white content to watch
True. Most B&W medical CRTs tended to have a much higher line count than consumer CRT televisions. Professional video monitors ended up insanely sharp though. I’ve got a Sony PVM14L5 which supports up to 1080i, but I mostly use it for Super Nintendo at 240p. Still, it’s _very_ sharp for a CRT no matter the resolution.
I have a little 5" b&w set from about 1980 and the picture on it is sharp as a tack, smaller color sets from the same era were very fuzzy in comparison and also as they got older the colors would drift meaning they had to be adjusted constantly.
In the 80's, a color TV was still a luxury for poor people, even if it was an old color TV with tubes. My downstairs neighbor had a color floor console TV with no working sound, but used a small b&w set to tune into the same channel for the sound 😂
Why is it antiquated, because you're so above the people that brought television to you while you waited for them to do so. Why insult, instead of congratulate such a hard working country.
boomers be like "WOW THIS IS REAL LIFE I CAN TRUST EVERY WORD THEY SAY TO MY DYING BREATH!!" (society gets completely subverted and they scratch their heads wondering why all their sons are unmarried and cant afford a home)
Imagine if I encountered someone who witnessed it in the 1950s as an adult who grew up in the 2000s where color tv is still centralized up until today.
1960's housewife: ''How come they send paint through the same cable suddenly? Will this damage my television electonics? What if the cable breaks and it spills on the floor. I tried calling the network but they had a lady on and i want to talk to a man.''
This was probably huge for the one family that owned a color TV at the time.
It's extra huge for a grinning idiot who's never studied this time frame yet can tell you all the stereotypes they've picked up from movies to fit into a time period that was actual in real life with real people, not a sitcom show in black and white.
It is heavy!
Shows how much you know lol
A color TV of any kind is an expensive investment and was a status symbol of wealth. Imagine being the only kid in town that can watch NBC's "Disneyland in Color" in color...
Equivalent to when 4K tvs first came out. There were barely any media that was formatted to that back then but ppl bought the TVs regardless ag crazy price/size to fully utilize it in 3+ years when more shows/films/games uses 4K.
Crazy that they captured on live TV the exact moment the world finally became colourful!
It was crazy!
@@A_sentient_Rubiks_cubefinally people could solve you!
@@adamnielson42XD
@@adamnielson42 LOL! Well done.
Crazy how our grand parents lived their life in black and white. I wonder how they matched their outfits. Good thing this color technology was invented
Wow, such a historic event and I never watched it until now. So crazy how all of this was ground breaking and its in the palm of our hands now.
This was just one channel, you know. Not the first color broadcast in history or anything.
@@TheLukasDirector To them, any impressive thing was the first because they had the honor of watching it and of course they know everything.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar Ah yes, the great WitchKing of Angmar, clearly a man of humble descent, and doesn't call himself a king on the internet and clearly doesn't act like he knows everything, because of course, this wasn't the first time that channel went on color tv right? It wasn't a historical moment for that channel, or a historical moment for that time period because I'm gonna assume other channels went onto color around the same time, no? Forgive me great Witch King, for leaving such a foolish comment on a internet thread that I should've known you would be on. Get over yourself, Kingcunt of Angmar.
@@TheLukasDirector Like I said to the Great Witchking, this was around the time all channels went on to Color TV, and it's pretty cool being able to see the transition to color and how ground breaking it was for that channel, and the viewers watching it if they had a TV capable at the time, it was crazy back then being able to produce film in color and being able to report News in real time and color, and now we are able to watch it in our hands. How far we've come, this channel and many others.
sounds like someone has a chip on their shoulder hahaha
We had our first color tv in 1964. It was an RCA with rounded sides and cost $400. It broke down at least once a year but we kept it at least 9 years.
Was it the same part that broke every year?
TK-42?
I must have bought 20 TV sets in 9 years. screen breaks etc.. cost a fortune nowdays
woah damn
Just the notion of a television "breaking down" regularly requiring an actual repair man to come out and fix it is fascinating to me.
Bob Bruner was a very respected newscaster and his little color joke was spot on. He used to co-anchor with Dave Shay, weather was Conrad Johnson and sports was Ron Gonder. Used to be Walter Cronkite at 5:30 and then local news at 6.
I have some suspicion the Les Nessman character on WKRP owes something to this guy.
@@jimjam51075 you realize he wasn't the only newscaster, right?
I've got to admit I feel like newscasters nowadays miss some charm that those guys had. Calm and collected
@@juliebraden6911 At what point did I say "only this guy"?
and we're all one major solar electromagnetic event from being thrown back into the iron age
It’s crazy how more people have probably seen this video than actually saw this live in colour.
first
His humble comment about other more colorful characters was pretty classy
"That's how I roll!" 💀
-j. Black, 2014
Classic self deprecation from an OG reporter
Engineer at KGAN here. Just held our 70th two weeks ago, many former workers came, including some who were there for this. I even dusted off the Dr. Max and Mombo puppets to display.
Was a great time. Have a special we ran about our history that's on our station website, I suggest everyone to go see it. Which included this moment!
pls put the website in the comments
@@pymarcos4125 I think comments with links disappear.
KGAN in CR? Did Bruce make it? Seems like KGAN has been a revolving door of anchors since his retirement.
@@IHWKR Bruce Aune? He was at 9
@g00b3r7 Oh, that's right! 🤦♂️ I remember Denny Frairy getting stumped by some tube ice calling it hail. Can be found on youtube🤣
And he wears a brown tie... Shame.
That was the color back then
You complained about a real color that was neither black nor white? Get a life.
As if brown where a color
@@MRALEX9870 ?
Our case in argentina was worse, the color transition was presented by a woman wearing a black dress.
The story mentioned at the end of the video was from March 15, 1968. So its probably around that time.
Real MVP
If only people would bother to put such information in the descriptions, so we wouldn't have to hope to find it in the comments.
@@smadaf
Thumbs down for not posting that info.
Nah it's from 2013 for sure
1:03 I love that he says that like he was expecting someone in the studio to give an audible laugh over it
It's crazy to think this was only 10 years ago. Things have progressed so fast!
U listen to yeat?
@@Ðogecoinwhat the hell? 😭
I know right! Technology has gone very far in the past 10 years.
U listen to yeat@@FillieYT
you joking right? this video is from freaking 1967
Imagine being apart of history just like that. I bet thats an awesome feeling.
"Hey guys, we have color, now let's watch some commercials" Nothing has changed in youdothemath'o years.
All that new equipment wasn’t free haha!
it was not in the same location so they needed time to move since those hulking cameras and their microphone cords were in the way
youdothemath'o? Oh honey. Let the funny people make the jokes, ok?
agreed very little fanfare
It has changed though. Now they’re all sponsored by pharmaceutical companies. It’s refreshing to hear an ad for an oil company. The good old days!
This seems to be from about ten years after I worked as a summer vacation replacement in 1958. Both WMT and WMT-TV had a great connection to the local community and were very well managed.
I used to go to the next door neighbors house to watch color TV. There were only a few color shows at first. Disney and Bonanza were on Sunday night back then.
Can't imagine what it would have been like to be seeing that from home for the first time in history. It doesn't seem like much now with all the 4k/8k displays out there, but it would have been so cool to experience it first hand. Still, I'm glad I was born in this generation 😂
You had to specifically buy a color television set in order to see this change happen before your eyes. Most of the TVs that were watching the show were in black and white and the change over to color didn’t change anything because they still had old TV sets.
@@NemeanLion- as they explained, the color cameras still provided an upgrade in quality even monochrome so stuff did change
@@vast9467 I doubt they saw any change on those old sets.
And because you were born in this generation, you're going to see way, way more mind blowing stuff, yet to come, than you can imagine.
And, no, I'm not talking about technology. Not at all.
Saying it in the most zoomer way possible, i bet they pogged so hard
The great Bob Bruner, one of my earliest memories of watching TV...
The town almost rioted when they heard a COLORED was going to be on their TV.
That was so funny my chest hurt !
So you're assuming racism? Get a grip.
@@ARandomInternetUser08You can't handle a joke? Get a grip.
@@sirllamaiii9708 maybe you're the one that needs to get a grip. Trust me, I can handle jokes, but I've seen so many leftists be serious when mocking whole groups they assume to be "racist". This is 2023 after all. Maybe you should stop living under a rock?
@@ARandomInternetUser08 "I can handle jokes", freaks out when someone makes a joke, blames leftists. Lmao
Apparently before the advent of color TVs, people used to dream in black & white. Not sure if it's a myth or not, but I find the prospect fascinating regardless.
That's certainly not true but an interesting neuromyth nonetheless
He is so amused at his joke about not being a colorful character. :) What a fun moment. Just look at his little grin starting @0:55.
I like the way they did that. I would imagine he began his career in radio.
I believe his career goes back even further, to SILENT radio
Man started his career chiseling rocks
If you were an older newsman in the 1960s you most definitely got your start in radio. Outside of the biggest US metro areas, non-print news was mostly received over the radio until the early 1950s.
@@arvetisI’m reporting live at the opening of the Roman colosseum where a crowd of fans looks on as a parade of lions and gladiators walks down the Via Claudia.
I just miss the sounds of the TV late at nite after you shut old TV's off. The clicks and the pops as you layed on your sleeping bag on a Friday nite as a kid.....excited about Saturday morning coming.
And the picture collapsed into a small white dot in the middle of the screen.
I almost totally forgot about those clicks and pops. And yes that weird white Outer Limits dot, for sure. 👍
@@voiceofraisin241yeah the dot creeped me out sometimes I thought the TV might explode
I miss the sound of static and the soothing grainy sound of late night TV that helped you fall asleep
@@RAAM855 Having your friends sleepover on the living room floor in sleeping bags in front the ColorTrak Tv😇 Trying to stay up as late as you could while the credits rolled to some old war movie.
The best times ever!
Funny that the same day they switch to color broadcasting they're also running a story on governor "hues"
Oh the delicious timing.
I'll be upgrading to a color TV this afternoon, so I can also watch the news in color. I can't wait.
I graduated from HS in 1964. Moved to London (to attend college) that Summer. My parents, who only watched the Evening news and Ed Sullivan on Sunday night's, bought a color tv a month later. I haven't spoken to them since...just kidding. They had that Packard Bell floor console (with a cable remote control) for 21 years. I bought them a HUGE projection screen in '85. Where they could now watch the Evening news and 60 Minutes on Sunday night's. Now in 2023 (at the age of 96) they have a 65" flat screen (that my three children bought them). Where they watch the Evening news and...UA-cam videos...and reruns of Ed Sullivan as well as new episodes of 60 Minutes on Sunday night's.
As a person who has watched a BUNCH of these TV history videos I love how in this and most analog shutdown broadcasts the reporters are just like, “Okay that happened anyway here’s a woman who’s pancake looks like Harry Styles!”
Actually this is the moment when the world received colors. Before, the world was only black and white
There are NPCs that actually believe this
This isn't even the first color televised platform. It was just big when any group got to switch to color but the first color broadcast was 1952. Imagine sheeny hair, full suits, a series of maroon, gray, biege, light blue, and mint cars, imagine a hustle of people dressed elegantly, and imagine that is color sprawled on your very own television.
@@Alex_1400believe? It’s a fact
@@Alex_1400I use to believe it when I was like 9
this is true. my grandfather was around when this happened. and my father lived through the times when everything was grainy.
Oh, so this is what a person of color looks like!
I can't believe they switched on colour on earth LIVE on TV!!
After 10 years, I have been recommended this masterpiece
It’s amazing how even the definition and picture quality increased once they switched to technicolor.
They made it like 5 seconds in color before going to ads. Nothing ever changes lol
Very historic. I'm glad someone found this in the archives
Very few people caught it but he said something interesting in the beginning: the new set (and cameras) would also give a clearer picture on monochrome (block and white) television. So even though few would have had a color television more people would have benefitted from that change than that.
TVs were expensive for a ling time, especially color televisions. So while the networks offered color programming in ‘67 or by ‘68, there was a lag in adoption by the public. I bet it took 10 years or so. By then, one only bought a B/W television by accident or something like that, or for a portable.
I like how humble he is.
Newscasters in that era considered it a privilege that you would watch their broadcast. Unlike modern "journalist" divas who believe they are somehow talented beloved Hollywood stars that speak only The Truth.
@@OzBaxter John Daly is an excellent example.
I Remember watching this changeover live in 1967 but we didn't get a color TV until 1974.....7 years later.....Bob Bruner was well respected when I was a kid........Conrad Johnson was a great wether man as well...
He mentions Governor Hughes who was Democratic governor of Iowa 1963-69. He refers to the Dubuque flood which occured April 1967, so this broadcast was sometime later that year; relatively late to switch to color. As a kid we didn't get a color set until 1975, but we were behind most others also
I was trying to see what year this was. Wasn't sure if it was 536 Ad, 1299 Ad, 47 Bc or 1999 AD. Thanks for the background.
Thanks! I was just about to ask what year this was :-)
The great Dubuque flood was in April of 1965.
Can’t believe this was only ten years ago. Technology moves so fast.
I find this so fascinating. I was born in 1969, and although we had a black & white TV, I wasn't alive when TV was all black & white. I get the impression that the news wasn't done with multiple cameras as it is now, because you see the guy walking to another desk.
They explained that they had designed a new set for color TV and he walked over there for the transition.
@@ryanhilliard1620it's like op desperately wanted us to know that he barely paid attention to the video at all.
But they also never paid attention when told there's only one space after punctuation so this follows a pattern.
Him adding an extra space after punctuation actually demonstrates that he did grow up in that era. A space after punctuation was usually added for formatting purposes while using a typewriter. Some instructors continued to require this spacing as computers became more commonplace. There was also a common opinion that the extra space improved readability, which has been largely abandoned. Unless you are using a specific writing format or following instructions to not use the extra space, there’s nothing that says you can’t add an extra space after a sentence. My guess is he learned to type on a typewriter, which became a habit that he’s never bothered to lose.
@@drunkentrainyup, I had a few teachers when I was younger than instructed us to double space after periods when typing on a computer. And I was born in the very late 90’s, so that persisted into the early to mid 2000’s. By middle school, no instructors were doing this anymore.
The reason there wasn’t a smooth transition was to show him walking over to the new color set before switching over to the color camera.
You can see the color camera in the shot of the black and white camera after he walks over and they turn the set lights on.
In the US, all prime-time programming had gone to color by 1967, but news programs were the last b/w holdouts, with some smaller channels having monochrome local news even into the early 70s.
In 1964 I remember telling my mom I was going to friends house to watch tv because he had color. I also remember the tv guide that came in the Sunday paper would specifically say when shows were in color. Then after awhile they would specifically say when shows were black and white. Good times.
Late 1960s was when lots of small stations transitioned to full colour broadcasting.
You can see when the color burst came on. They really followed the FCC rule, no color, no burst.
What does that mean?
@@joshwilliams7692 Before color is allowed to be broadcasted it must be flashed. Because of people with seizures watching screens.
@@brothernumber1576 What do you mean by flashed? How does that help people who get seizures?
@@joshwilliams7692 You didn't really get a good answer. A colorbust was a very short, very high frequency (3.58mhz) pulse at the beginning of every line of a color TV picture. It served to re-synchronize the color circuits so the colors were correct. Also, it's presence denoted a color picture, and it's absence denoted a black and white picture. So, if a color set tuned into a B&W station, it wouldn't see the colorburst and would turn the color circuits off. In an era where stations had both B&W and color programs, they were supposed to turn off the colorburst on B&W programs. If they showed a B&W picture and forgot to turn off the colorburst, the set would look in vain for color information, sometimes interpreting static and film grain as color signals and the screen would show multi-colored confetti. PS: a black and white set watching a color program would see the colorburst but ignore it.
@@brothernumber1576 , the color burst has nothing to do with accommodating people who get seizures from certain visual stimuli. And the television accommodation of people who might get seizures from rapid flashing, which was discovered in players it video-games, didn't begin until the late 1990s.
Oh yes! These two guys are much more exciting in color.
I remember in about 1972 they had a 50th year on the air anniversary on WMT-AM and Bob Bruner (the newscaster in this video) was part of the roundtable discussion as he also worked on the radio side. At one point while they were discussing how things had changed over the years in radio and TV he said something like, “We would have been better off if people like Ed Sullivan had never introduced to America some of these rock acts like the Beatles.” He got a lot of immediate backlash from other guests on the program. But I suspect at that time it was a commonly held belief with the many older listeners. He was born in a different era. Very much the straight-up, no nonsense newscaster. Kind of boring but nowadays it’s all flash. He was a good guy.
Wish we could say the same about your boring posts.
He should have worn a yellow suit and asked viewers to guess the colour before the switch.
Who knew one day that will be watching this on our phones 📱. We have come a long way in technology.
I can only imagine how profound this must have been.
Something in me wants to believe, that the family with the color tv went nuts that day. Everyone first distracted, then it happens and they just go OOOOOh!
Our first color TV had a "Color Pilot" indicator that would light-up when a video was in color. 🤣
Wow, the switchover to it originally live, how cool!
I love the sound of old news reports, the microphones they used then gives me an undescribable calm.
This is Insane. It feels like live time traveling from grayscale TV tech to full spectrum color TV tech
Boy the stuffiness of the old-time delivery, wow. It takes me back. And he makes a poor attempt at a wise crack and makes a barely perceptible partial smile. That is so incredible to watch, realizing how radically far we’ve changed since then
There was a lot more formality in that era. Frankly, we've moved to far in the opposite direction.
When I was young, I asked my parents if the whole world itself was black and white before colour TV was switched on. And when it was the world transformed into glorious technocolor! Lol
Back in the day when TV reporters were good at their jobs, and didn't have to be "pretty people" airheads.
Shakes fist at cloud*
Don Henley's song comes to mind 😅
The history has been changed forever...
Y2K kiddo here. It's so unfortunate that I can't "re-live" the genuine excitement about innovation and technological advancement.
I witnessed the birth and mass-adoption of "Flatscreens" (which were a big deal in the late 2000s). These days it's a lot more about optimization and profit margining, which really isn't exciting... :c
Same here, also Y2K but I grew up with much older tech because I lived with my great grandparents with my mom, and we had like huge tube tvs and chunky wall phones. I was genuinely blown away when I saw a mobile phone, and I was like 6, in 2005. Then the iPhone came and it felt like I jumped hundreds of years in the future.
If I could time travel to the past I'd wanna visit the late 60s and early 70s, maybe even the 90s just to see the revolutionary tech.
We didn’t get a color television in our house until the late 60’s. For all you millennials and gen x’ers out there spoiled with cable tv, there were only eight television stations in Chicago back then, VHF channels 2,5,7,9,11, and UHF channels 26,32 & 44. Broadcasting ended about 1am with the national anthem played and resumed about 6am with the playing of the national anthem. In between then you got to look at a crazy test pattern of a bunch of circles and squares with an Indianhead, why an Indian in full headdress, I don’t know. That is all we had back then and it seemed normal to us until you look back at it now. I guess the people who grew up with only radio before television came out said same thing.
I used to think, as a kid, everybody on a B&W TV set or show, wore black and white clothes...
Since I grew up with B&W I didn't even know it was black and white. It was just what I watched and I assumed it was normal...until I found out otherwise.
I know it's not what you mean, but they did choose outfits based on how they'd show up on B&W film. Some things that look fine in color are ugly or distracting in B&W. And the other way around, too. A lot of the clothes and makeup that looked great in B&W looked terrible in color/real life!
I used to think that back in the old days everything was black and white.
Things like this are what UA-cam should be. Little bits of history that would otherwise be lost. It's so sad the site has been reduced to mainstream media and ad revenue.
What a historic moment in American Television, am I right?🎉
Truly
Yep
Johnny quest and hazel the maid were the only two color programs on tv when we got a color tv.
This aired April 14, 1967
Thanks
That can't possibly be from 1967. In 1967 Color Television looked like that: ua-cam.com/video/al0zZ5HUhXc/v-deo.html
@@relgeiz2 ? They just used a different camera with a worse sensor
@@relgeiz2 Very ignorant
I remember getting our first TV in our home. I was 2 or 3 yrs old. It was a black and white TV. Watched Wizard of Oz. My brother who is 63 is still scared of the flying monkeys. I cried at every episode of Lassie. 😅😊
We still have a crackling tube television in our house. I would love a good television. This video felt similar.
If you started out watching that program in black and white TV, you're not going to see color on a black and white TV
Youll see a difference in chroma. Colors have different values of black and white. They even explain this in the video.
My god, he played that down HARD.
That man is humble.
Those "improved" RCA TK-42 camera really gave out bad color. They were so bad that Norelco took the lead in color, and RCA never recovered.
If they used small IO tubes for the chroma, they might have had half a chance with the '42. Trying to match vidicons with a 4" IO tube?! That's being terminally cheap, and they didn't pay their engineers enough for this s***
In spite of their later Plumbicon TK-44A/B and TK-45A. (There were some bugs in their last two models, TK-46 and TK-47.)
We had some TK-42's at WQAD and it wasn't uncommon during the evening newscast where the cameras would go out of registration and you would see 3 images.
We didn't get a color TV in our house until 1991 when our black and white RCA TV blew out from the antennae on the roof getting hit by lightning.
Definitely must've been more exciting than going HD.
The man who steps into frame of the color camera wants to give credit to his team, what a guy.
I’m not sure if everybody knows this, but most of the TV sets during that time were still in black-and-white when this change happened. The picture didn’t change to color right before your eyes, you had to buy a specific television that could display in color. I myself had a small black and white television in my bedroom well into 1980. The downstairs TV was color, but small black-and-white TVs were much cheaper.
I still had a black and white TV as a teen in the 90s and was glad to have my own small tv.
It's no wonder that most tv's were black and white _before_ there was any color on the tv broadcasts. No reason to invest in a very expensive color tv to be the only one who has it, and nothing but black and white content to watch
The day the color tv arrived was the only day the tv ever came on in the daytime. Due to its sheer unprecedentedness.
Except for the housewives who were at home watching their soaps.
@@sa3270 Of course I'm talking about our household.
Nice transition.
I thought that too
Governor Hues? Lol, couldn’t resist.
The fact is that B&W TV was much clearer and sharper (in analogue era) switch to color reduced sharpness and contrast. Color was a nice change though.
True. Most B&W medical CRTs tended to have a much higher line count than consumer CRT televisions. Professional video monitors ended up insanely sharp though.
I’ve got a Sony PVM14L5 which supports up to 1080i, but I mostly use it for Super Nintendo at 240p. Still, it’s _very_ sharp for a CRT no matter the resolution.
I have a little 5" b&w set from about 1980 and the picture on it is sharp as a tack, smaller color sets from the same era were very fuzzy in comparison and also as they got older the colors would drift meaning they had to be adjusted constantly.
That was mostly due to crappy video standards tho as opposed to the TVs themselves, Europe had SCART and we didn't
The first comment in color was about Gov. "Hues". Brilliant
i cant believe people finally saw color :,) this is beautiful
This was April 14, 1967, if you’re curious.
can’t explain why but this is my biggest motivation as and artist.
Colorblind people: What do you mean? Everything is still black and white.
born in the mid 70s, we still had "the black and white tv" , as our secondary set. at the time it seemed normal, now i see how antiquated the idea was
In the 80's, a color TV was still a luxury for poor people, even if it was an old color TV with tubes. My downstairs neighbor had a color floor console TV with no working sound, but used a small b&w set to tune into the same channel for the sound 😂
Honey, he's teasing you. Nobody has two television sets!
lol@@technoman9000
you been watching too much ed sullivan@@technoman9000
Why is it antiquated, because you're so above the people that brought television to you while you waited for them to do so. Why insult, instead of congratulate such a hard working country.
Bro was so humble too
A big leap in tech. And now, we take it for granted.
This happened “2,475” years ago in Internet time.
Our 1st color tv was a glorious 13 inch monster.
That's where capitalism and competition is better
Thanks to Guillermo González Camarena, for inventing the color TV, Mexican pride! 😎
Mi tocayo.
He was Brazilian, from Brazil and Brazil citizen. Brazil also invent airplane.
There isn't a date on this, but Harold Hughes was Governor of Iowa 1963-1969.
I love it because he is humble about it and obviously very grateful/ proud for this honour :)
boomers be like "WOW THIS IS REAL LIFE I CAN TRUST EVERY WORD THEY SAY TO MY DYING BREATH!!" (society gets completely subverted and they scratch their heads wondering why all their sons are unmarried and cant afford a home)
0:35 Apparently sound guys look the same no matter what era you're in 😂
Imagine if I encountered someone who witnessed it in the 1950s as an adult who grew up in the 2000s where color tv is still centralized up until today.
There are so many things that we take for granted these days! The youngsters don't understand! What a TV event it must've been!
@@wswalpff_ Glad you went to school.
@@wswalpff_ yeah, adults are on the internet too
@@wswalpff_how old are you?
@@ooliver ik its just a pretty rare sighting for me to find an adult here
@@Stickleback galit kba?
"right after this message, from Standard Oil"
Lmaooo
Two wild and crazy guys!!
1960's housewife: ''How come they send paint through the same cable suddenly? Will this damage my television electonics? What if the cable breaks and it spills on the floor. I tried calling the network but they had a lady on and i want to talk to a man.''
Wonder how many people tuned in without knowing tv would start having color? And their genuine reaction
Imagine tv adds for color tv.... "ok trust me, you can't see it but is in color"