FEBRUARY 1958
Taped Color TV Test Successful — HOLLYWOOD — Television viewers in three Pacific Coast states last night saw the first commercial telecast using color video tape.
The revolutionary process whereby a TV show can be instantly retransmitted in color or black and white on magnetic tape is a joint project of RCA and the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co. Black and white video tape has been in use since last year but final testing on the color process was completed only last week.
Members of the press watched the demonstration on twin sets—one color and the other black and white. All called it successful.
