[1] Fred Bechly began his career at RCA Corporation in Camden, New Jersey, in 1944, and he worked there for 40 years in the field of color television broadcasting.

This development offered significant advantage over the prior RCA technology that used three kinescopes which combined three images using a mirror system to produce a single color picture.

[4] The new Tri-color Kinescope technology was considered to be the RCA "secret weapon" vs. competitor CBS during establishment of the NTSC standard for color television by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission in 1953.

[13] Fred Bechly was granted two United States patents, that were important to the field of color television broadcasting, as an employee of the RCA Corporation.

Fred Bechly was a member of the RCA Corporation team that was nominated for the 1958-1959 award of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for Development of Color Video Tape.