First British BBC2 Colour TV ServiceIn 1967, BBC2 begain its first scheduled, but limited, colour television service in England with a 4-hr outside broadcast (OB) from the Wimbledon Tennis Championship. The OB used the only colour mobile control room that the BBC had available. This live program was different from the BBC1 (black and white) production at the event. (The practice of using the colour camera feed for the b/w service began the following year.) The first week of colour broadcasts also included an episode of the Western series, The Virginian. Studios were not yet ready for colour, so colour programming was limited at first to films and OBs, using only six of the BBC2 transmitters (those in other regions of England remained in black and white). BBC2 expanded on 2 Dec 1967 to about 25 hours in colour per week. « |
