When I was a kid, we had a radio. But over in Blighty, a neighbor had a small television with COLOR! Or as he would have said, colour.
He had a piece of plastic, I guess, with the top tinted blue, the bottom tinted green. His screen was about 12", the cabinet quite large. Only one channel.
In the Philippines, we finally got a TV. We had two stations, both in Manila, 40 or so miles south. I remember best the coffee commercials, which featured a rooster crowing for his morning "Rooster Brand" coffee.