Watch this TV channel switch from black and white to color broadcasting in 1967

On April 14, 1967, Iowa's Channel 2 TV station switched from black and white to color broadcasting. This was 13 years after the first national color broadcastthe Tournament of Roses Parade. Fortunately, the technology was backwards compatiblein 1964, just a few years before the Channel 2 switch, only 3.1 percent of households in the US with TV had a color model. — Read the rest