Editing Color television (section)

====Second NTSC====
The possibility of a compatible color broadcast system was so compelling that the NTSC decided to re-form, and held a second series of meetings starting in January 1950. Having only recently selected the CBS system, the FCC heavily opposed the NTSC's efforts. One of the FCC Commissioners, R. F. Jones, went so far as to assert that the engineers testifying in favor of a compatible system were "in a conspiracy against the public interest".

Unlike the FCC approach where a standard was simply selected from the existing candidates, the NTSC would produce a board that was considerably more pro-active in development.

Starting before CBS color even got on the air, the U.S. television industry, represented by the [[NTSC|National Television System Committee]], worked in 1950–1953 to develop a color system that was compatible with existing black-and-white sets and would pass FCC quality standards, with RCA developing the hardware elements. RCA first made publicly announced field tests of the dot sequential color system over its New York station [[WNBC|WNBT]] in July 1951.<ref>"RCA to Test Color TV System On Three Shows Daily Beginning Today", ''The Wall Street Journal'', 9 July 1951, p. 3.</ref> When CBS testified before Congress in March 1953 that it had no further plans for its own color system,<ref>"CBS Says Confusion Now Bars Color TV", ''The Washington Post'', 26 March 1953, p. 39.</ref> the [[National Production Authority]] dropped its ban on the manufacture of color television receivers,<ref>"N.P.A. Decides to End Restrictions on Output Of Color TV Sets", ''The Wall Street Journal'', 21 March 1953, p. 1.</ref> and the path was open for the NTSC to submit its petition for FCC approval in July 1953, which was granted on 17 December.<ref>"F.C.C. Rules Color TV Can Go on Air at Once", ''The New York Times'', 19 December 1953, p. 1.</ref> The first publicly announced network demonstration of a program using the NTSC "compatible color" system was an episode of NBC's ''[[Kukla, Fran and Ollie]]'' on 30 August 1953, although it was viewable in color only at the network's headquarters. The first network broadcast to go out over the air in NTSC color was a performance of the opera ''[[Carmen]]'' on 31 October 1953.