title: Pacific Mercury
text: # Pacific Mercury
  
  Pacific Mercury was a manufacturer of television sets in the 1950s and 1960s under the name Mercury Television. The last year of production was 1964.
  
  Pacific Mercury was part of the first coast-to-coast color broadcast in the United States when NBC telecasted the Tournament of Roses Parade on January 1, 1954, with public demonstrations given across the United States on prototype color receivers by manufacturers RCA, General Electric, Philco, Raytheon, Hallicrafters, Hoffman, Pacific Mercury and others.
  
  