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Heatercathodeshort · 4th Nov 2019, 6:27 pm

BBC2 was transmitting colour for quite a while before the official opening announcement in June for the Wimbledon Tennis. Pre June the transmissions were aimed for the trade and were not official programmes.
It was the same in late 1969 when BBC1 and ITV went over to colour on 15th November. There were odd occasions when channel 23 would perk up and show the current ITV programme in colour then close down again. Channel 26 would do the same and I remember the Frost programme being announced that it was going out in colour. I pressed the UHF button on our Murphy CTV2210D and low and behold it was Frost in colour. It seems only yesterday. Those early colour days were great fun. John.

4th Nov 2019, 6:27 pm	#22
Heatercathodeshort Dekatron Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Warnham, West Sussex. 10 miles south of DORKING. Posts: 9,147	Re: Colour TV in UK in 1966-surely not!! BBC2 was transmitting colour for quite a while before the official opening announcement in June for the Wimbledon Tennis. Pre June the transmissions were aimed for the trade and were not official programmes. It was the same in late 1969 when BBC1 and ITV went over to colour on 15th November. There were odd occasions when channel 23 would perk up and show the current ITV programme in colour then close down again. Channel 26 would do the same and I remember the Frost programme being announced that it was going out in colour. I pressed the UHF button on our Murphy CTV2210D and low and behold it was Frost in colour. It seems only yesterday. Those early colour days were great fun. John.