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One of your living room guests celebrated a 50th year milestone yesterday Ñ the colour television. It was back on March 25, 1954 that the Radio Corporation of America began manufacturing colour TVs at its Indiana plant. The company produced 5,000 of the new sets with 12-inch screens. The technology was so new, the concept so novel, the sets came with a steep price tag of $1,000. But use of the sets was limited. Colour telecasts were rare in the 1950s and didn't become common practice in North America until the 1960s, when programs began proudly boasting they were "in living colour." See 'Colour' P.# Con't from P.# By 1967, colour sets outsold their black and white counterparts for the first time in the United States and by 1973, the majority of homes enjoyed colour viewing.
