The slow revolution: Color TV no overnight sensation

It’s hard to imagine a world where our images on our various screens aren’t brought to us in color.

Sixty years ago, it was the norm. All televisions were in black and white, well shades of gray actually, as were all the television broadcasts.

But, something happened on June 7, 1953: Color TVs hit store shelves.

Six months later, the Tournament of Roses Parade would be the first national color broadcast. It was telecast by 21 stations in the NBC network.