On December 30, 1953, Admiral introduced the first home color television set for $1,175.00
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in 1964. The color wasn't all that bad for that age either. 
All TV and most movies were filmed in black and white. TV stations broadcast in black and white only.
A 12 and a half inch picture!
I think the first VCR (betamax) cost around $1500.
transistors and printed circuits.
I remember the old tube TVs. Whenever a tube blew we'd have to wait for the TV repairman (Chuck Cater, I even remember his name) to make a house call, because just about every TV was a console model, and there was no way people were going to load that into their cars to take to a shop.
Sometimes the TV repairman would come in a day or two, sometimes it took as long as a week. And agony of agonies, if he didn't have the particular tube you needed, and he had to order it we might have missed Mickey Mouse Club for up to three weeks!
We had it tough back then, I'll tell you. We had to walk to school, about 3/4 mile each way, and uphill both ways! 
Today's kids have it so much easier.
should have tipped you off that I was being facetious about the "uphill to school" remark.
As for the CRTs, those were manufactured in the U.S. as well, often in the same area where the TVs were assembled, so there wasn't any need to ship them long distances.
The loss of TV manufacturing in the U.S. came when Walmart and other stores started selling larger, and less expensive, TVs from China and other Asian countries. U.S. consumers demanded cheaper and larger TVs, as well as cheaper everything from overseas. Asian countries were more than happy to oblige, along with Walmart. They could manufacture them so cheaply that if they had 20% breakage from shipping across the ocean, they still made more money than buying them from American companies 500 miles away. Asian companies became packaging wizards. Wasteful wizards, but wizards all the same.
What American consumers didn't realize was that they were slowly shuttering factories in the U.S. that made those products as well. But a pair of tube socks made in Bangladesh for $1, over a pair from North Carolina that cost $1.99?
And Walmart's profit margin increased by 25%? No contest! Americans loved these products. Until factories in the U.S. shut their doors, and they lost their own jobs. Then the Asian economy wasn't such a great thing anymore.
I lived through the post-WWII economy myself. Those funny, cheap Japanese toys my Uncle stationed in Okinawa sent home to his neices and nephews, those were a big hit. But those transistor radios the adults got? Those were the real deal changer.
I'm older than dirt. There's that wink again, meaning that I'm not actually older than dirt, I'm being facetious. 
Have a wonderful day.
He went to a local oil delivery service, got a job on commissions selling fuel oil.
Made good money too, each winter.
I rode with him in his truck pretty often.
Yeah, I got cold pretty often too! 
A couple years before my Dad died, I asked him if someone had told him about his flat-screen TV hooked up to satellite, what he would have said about that back in the 60's, he was honest and said it sounded like Sci-Fi.
