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NPR : Color TV’s 50th Anniversary

March 25, 2004 — Fifty years ago today, the first color TV sets made for consumers started rolling off the assembly line. Because they were initially too expensive and there was little color programming available, it took more than a decade for color television to become a household fixture.

NPR’s Lynn Neary reports on the early days of color TV, and the way today’s new technology — from HDTV to TiVo — is similarly transforming home entertainment.

Includes related NPR stories and links to a 1958 NBC color broadcast, and early (animated) TV color logos (Peacocks, for those of you too young to have thought about it, have very colorful tails. get it?).