Abstract: By including a counting circuit, optionally followed by a sample-and-hold circuit coupled to an output of a quadrature-component demodulator in a chrominance signal processing section of a color television receiver and providing a memory circuit for a presetting value, which memory circuit is coupled to a control signal input of a chrominance carrier oscillator via a digital-to-analog converter, a fast, sufficiently accurate automatic adjusting procedure for this oscillator can be obtained, while a normally provided control loop of the oscillator is made inoperative.