Editing Color television (section)

====Canada====
Colour broadcasts from the United States were available to Canadian population centres near the border from the mid-1950s.<ref name="CBC goes colour">{{cite news
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 |title=CBC in Living Colour
 |newspaper=CBC News
 |date=5 September 1991
|location=Ottawa
 |author=CBC Staff
 |access-date=1 January 2014
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102194040/http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/arts-entertainment/media/canada-tunes-in-the-early-years-of-radio-and-tv/cbc-in-living-colour.html
 |archive-date=2 January 2014
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</ref> At the time that NTSC colour broadcasting was officially introduced into Canada in 1966, less than one percent of Canadian households had a colour television set.<ref name = "CBC goes colour"/> Colour television in Canada was launched on the [[CBC Television|Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]]'s (CBC) [[CBC Television|English language TV service]] on 1 September 1966.<ref name = "CBC goes colour"/> Private television broadcaster [[CTV Television Network|CTV]] also started colour broadcasts in early September 1966.<ref name = "Color is Expensive">
{{cite news
 | url          = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yWhkAAAAIBAJ&dq=introduction%20of%20colour%20television%20in%20canada&pg=3834%2C322129
 | title        = Color It Expensive
 | newspaper    = The Calgary Herald
 | page         = 4
 | date         = 1 September 1966
| location     = Calgary, Alberta
 | access-date   = 14 April 2012
}}
</ref>
The CBC's French-language service, [[Ici Radio-Canada Télé|Radio-Canada]], was broadcasting colour programming on its television network for 15 hours a week in 1968.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/listing_and_histories/src-radio-canada-network|title=SRC Radio-Canada Network – History of Canadian Broadcasting|website=www.broadcasting-history.ca|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171226073947/http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/listing_and_histories/src-radio-canada-network|archive-date=26 December 2017}}</ref> Full-time colour transmissions started in 1974 on the CBC, with other private sector broadcasters in the country doing so by the end of the 1970s.<ref name = "CBC goes colour"/>

The following provinces and areas of Canada introduced colour television by the years as stated
*Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba, British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec (1966; Major networks only – private sector around 1968 to 1972)
*Newfoundland and Labrador (1967)
*Nova Scotia, New Brunswick (1968)
*Prince Edward Island (1969)
*Yukon (1971)
*Northwest Territories (including Nunavut) (1972; Major networks in large centers, many remote areas in the far north did not get colour until at least 1977 and 1978)