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QUESTION ABOUT WCIU-TV AND COLOR-TV

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OldChicago

WCIU-TV/26 was the last station in Chicago to switch from B&W to color. Does anyone remember when this happened. I saw an article saying it happened around 1974, but I remember it happening earlier than that.


OLD CHICAGO
 
The first color broadcast I saw on WCIU was the 1973 Baseball Hall of Fame induction, on same-day tape (with color banding thanks to misalignment of the tape) in the late afternoon. I was stunned. WCIU had a color VTR and a color-capable transmitter? Live, film and slides at the station were still in b/w and would be for some time. But that day in August, there was color on Channel 26.
 
In tv today of course knowone would ever even consider this so this is just a curious question, is it cheaper to run b/w as opposed to standard color? Back in the analog days of course.
 
It was when you had to buy color cameras, film chains, videotape recorders, a color exciter for the transmitter, and whatnot, all of which were more expensive than black-and-white equipment. WCIU went on the air in 1964, 10 years into the color era and a year before all three networks were largely in color in the evening, but still was outfitted as a black-and-white station (likely with the exception of the VTRs).
 
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