Jan. 1, 1954 AT&T Color Network

Ed Reitan's Color Television History

Jan. 1, 1954 AT&T Color Network

On March 26, 1954, T. A. Smith, VP of RCA Engineering Products Division, presented a paper to RCA Receiving Set Licensees at Bloomington, Indiana. The paper, entitled "Station and Network Facilities for Color Television" showed a chart of the telephone circuits which could carry color as of January 1, 1954. He reported 26 stations in 20 cities were equipped and interconnected by January 1 on a transcontinental circuit for the New Year's Day broadcast of the Tournament of Roses. The chart shows 21 cities. Jack Gould in his Jan. 4 review of the Rose Parade mentions 22 cities. The topology of the West Coast to East Coast linkup was:

City	primary link	secondary link	secondary link
Los Angeles	Los Angeles to San Francisco	-	-
San Francisco	San Francisco to Salt Lake City	-	-
Salt Lake City	Salt Lake City to Denver	-	-
Denver	Denver to Omaha	-	-
Omaha	Omaha to Chicago	Omaha to St. Paul [end]	-
St. Paul	[end]	-	-
Chicago	Chicago to Detroit	Chicago to Milwaukee [end]	Chicago to St. Louis [end]
Milwaukee	[end]	-	-
St. Louis	[end]	-	-
Detroit	Detroit to Toledo	-	-
Toledo	Toledo to Cleveland	-	-
Cleveland	Cleveland to Johnstown	Cleveland to Cincinnati [end]	-
Cincinnati	[end]	-	-
Johnstown	Johnstown to Philadelphia	-	-
Philadelphia	Philadelphia to New York	to Washington [end], to Baltimore [end]	to Wilkesbarre [end]
Washington	[end]	-	-
Baltimore	[end]	-	-
Wilkesbarre	[end]	-	-
New York	New York to New Haven [end]	-	-
New Haven	[end]	-	-

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