‘Will people stop buying black and white sets?’: Colour TV in Australian broadcasting | 7NEWS VAULT
Today marks the 51st anniversary of colour television coming to Australian broadcasting! Let’s take a look back at when we hit the switch from black-and-white to colour.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:40 1975 Colour television introduced
1:24 1975 Switch flicks from black-and-white to colour
1:35 1974 Street interviews
2:43 1974 Gough Whitlam on tv manufacturing
4:10 1975 ‘Big C Day’: colour television launch
5:43 1972 Cost of colour tvs
7:34 1972 Colour TV conversion scam
*Using 7NEWS’ archival footage from the years 1972-1974
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