Baskadia

On this day, June the 25th of 1951, CBS made what is regarded as the first colour television broadcast, when a four hour-long musical variety special titled "Premiere" was shown over a network of five East Coast CBS affiliates.

It was broadcast over a five-station network from New York’s Studio 57, and although there were 10.5 million monochrome sets in the U.S., none of them could see it because no Field Sequential sets were made until September of 1951, and less than a month later, production was ordered halted with the Korean War broke out

Unfortunately, the "Premiere" nearly went unwatched since most people had black-and-white sets, and Variety estimated that only thirty prototype colour receivers were available in the New York area.

While the first television station in Nigeria began in 1959 with the establishment of WNTV, which was located in Ibadan, Color TV transmission was first introduced in Nigeria in July 1974 at Benue Plateau Television in Jos.

It is worth noting that while colour broadcasts were available from Nigeria from 1974, they were PAL, Phase Alternating Line, which is a colour encoding system for analog television. It was one of three major analog colour television standards, the others being NTSC and SECAM.

Today, there are several color encoding systems in use, but one of the most widely used is the Academy Color Encoding System (ACES). ACES is a global standard for interchanging digital image files, managing colour workflows, and creating masters for delivery and archiving.

Unlike the Analog PAL system, ACES supports both high dynamic range (HDR) and wide colour gamut (WCG), which is why you enjoy the High definition pictures you see on TV.

Many of those who couldn't see the "Premiere" 72 years ago on colour sets can see it today on HDR ACES colour encoding systems.

Time changes all things, and if we live long enough, we may realize that nothing is actually IMPOSSIBLE for humans to accomplish, if we keep our minds OPEN and HUNGRY enough to review all human achievements and COMMIT to ALWAYS BETTERING our BEST.

So, tell me,

When was the first time you saw a colour tv?

~Nnanna Uma.