The NTSC declined to elaborate further, saying the accident was still under investigation.

At the FCC's behest, the NTSC television standard went into effect exactly seven years later.

The NTSC said it expected to release its final report within the next 12 months.

Everyone was inventing things, and NTSC, the code that makes television television, RCA purchased that.

Engineers and the FCC tweaked the NTSC standard in the early 1950s to make way for color TV.