Early Color Television Westinghouse H840CK15 (click on picture for high resolution image) This set was the first color set for sale, in March of 1954. It was priced at $1,295. Westinghouse ran a full page ad in the New York Times introducing the set. 200 sets were shipped to 46 stores in New York and 14 in New Jersey, beginning in February of 1954. According to Business Week, 30 sets were sold. Consumer Reports reviewed the new Westinghouse in their April, 1954 issue. They concluded:
In April the price was cut to $1,110 after only 30 sets had been sold. Only 500 were built, and most were never sold, because there was very little programming in color at the time, and the set was expensive and temperamental. This is one of only a few of these sets still in existence. We have finished the restoration of two of these sets. Both cabinets have been restored to their original condition. One set will remain with us, while the other will be placed in a museum in the Northeast.
Courtesy of Marshall Wozniak |
