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Color TV Celebrates 50th, But Viewers Didn't Tune in All at Once (USA Today)
On March 25, 1954, Radio Corporation of America (RCA) began making color sets at its Bloomington, Ind., plant. It built 5,000 with 12-inch screens, known as the model CT-100 color receiver. They sold
for $1,000 each, astronomical in those days. They didn't get much use that year, because color telecasts were so rare. But the American love affair with the tube had taken a leap forward.
