WASHINGTON,
June 25, 2017
/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile
America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:
LIVING COLOR
Profile America — Sunday, June 25th. Today is the anniversary of
the first color television broadcast. In 1951, CBS transmitted the
appropriately named program "Premiere" from New York City and through stations in
Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia. By the end of 1957, while nearly
39 million U.S. households had TV sets, only 150,000 were color
units. Sales of color sets caught up with those of black and white
sets around 1970. Shortly thereafter, American consumers began
preferring foreign manufactured sets, and in 1995, the last major
domestic brand was sold to a Korean firm. What little receiver
manufacturing remains is a $156 million
dollar a year domestic business. You can find current
data on the country's economy by downloading the 'America's
Economy' mobile application at
www.census.gov/mobile.
Sources:
First
broadcast/accessed 3/31/2017:
http://history1900s.about.com/od/1950s/qt/Color-TV.htm
First
color sets and sales/accessed 3/31/2017:
www.earlytelevision.org/color.html
U.S.
household TVs: Historical Statistics of
the United States: Colonial Times
to 1970, p. 796:
https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/1975/compendia/hist_stats_colonial-1970/hist_stats_colonial-1970p2-chR.pdf
Last
major U.S. brand sold off/accessed 3/31/2017:
www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-01-10/whats-new-in-television-more-tv-sets-are-being-made-in-the-u-dot-s-dot-a
Television
receiver manufacturing/Annual Survey of Manufacturers/NAICS
3343102:
https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ASM/2015/31VS101//prodsvc~3343102
Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media
and Promotion of the U.S. Census Bureau. Statistics and accounts
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or narrative purposes, and are not attested to by the U.S. Census
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SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau