HC Deb 26 October 1949 vol 468 c159W
94. Mr. Erroll

asked the Postmaster-General what progress has been made by the Post Office Engineering Department and the British Broadcasting Corporation with experiments in colour television.

Mr. Wilfred Paling

The B.B.C. informs me that some experiments on the basic principles of colour television have been started in the Corporation's Research Laboratories, where a study is being made of all developments, at home and abroad, relating to colour television. The Post Office Engineering Department, so far as it is concerned, has kept in touch with these developments and has been studying methods of the point-to-point transmission of television signals which would be required, if colour television broadcasting were introduced.