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Unlike many great inventions the television was developed by the combined thinking of several inventors.

The concept of something like a television was part of a hoax based on a ‘futuristic thinking’ article published in The New York Sun of 29 March 1877.

In 1935 Germany was actually the first country to think about the first regular electronic television broadcasts. It was not until 1946 that regular network broadcasting began in the United States.

Think about this! In North America, the basic signal standards have been compatible enough since 1941, that even the oldest monochrome televisions can still receive color broadcasts in 2007.

Since its origination all of the thinking about improving the t.v. has led to such developments as picture in picture, high-definition, pay-per-view and web t.v. and 28 others.

People in Las Vegas think about high-definition more than any other city as it has the most high-definition television per-capita in the U.S.

NBC and CBS started in the early 1920s as radio stations and later began thinking about broadcast television and that is how most people think of these companies today.

In the beginning a viewer could think of the standard broadcast television season in the United States as 22 episodes per season. Original cable programming now have us thinking about seasons half that long.

Trends in the fashion industry have some thinking there is a modern day comeback for the original wood-grain looking exterior. What do you think?

Since inception in the US in 1940, TV commercials have become one of the most effective, most persuasive, and most popular ways to think about selling products of many sorts, especially consumer goods. Do commercials influence the way you think spend your money?

When entertainment professionals in the United States think "ratings" they are often thinking about the Nielsen Ratings, a system thought of by Nielsen Media Research to determine the audience size and composition of television programming. Nielsen Ratings are offered in over forty countries.

An article in Scientific American suggested that we should not think of compulsive television watching, television addiction, as any different from any other addiction.

Other studies will have us thinking that "television viewing in childhood and adolescence is associated with poor educational achievement. In other words, the more the child watched television, the less likely he or she was to finish school and enroll in a university. Think about that!

Mean World Syndrome is described as the distinguishing characteristic of Media Induced Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (MIPTSD). Another way to think about MIPTSD is that all of the violence and negative images on t.v. can have traumatic effects on a person. Think about the following statistics before deciding how you think about MIPTSD: Number of murders seen on TV by the time an average child finishes elementary school: 8,000 - Number of violent acts seen on TV by age 18: 200,000. 79% of Americans do think that t.v. violence corresponds to real-life violence.

Ninety-nine percent of American households have at least one television and the majority of households have more than one. What do you think the other 10% do? Reports will have us think that households that can afford a t.v., but choose not to have one have a stronger family bond, are healthier and more productive in school and careers.
If you don’t think this could be true then think about this: The number of minutes per week that parents spend in meaningful conversation with their children: 3.5 compared to the number of minutes per week that the average child watches television: 1,680.

Think about this! According to the A.C. Nielsen Co., the average American watches more than 4 hours of TV each day (or 28 hours/week, or 2 months of nonstop TV-watching per year). In a 65-year life, that person will have spent 9 years glued to the tube.

Think about the following statistics compiled by TV-Free America.

I. FAMILY LIFE

Percentage of households that possess at least one television: 99
Number of TV sets in the average U.S. household: 2.24
Percentage of U.S. homes with three or more TV sets: 66
Number of hours per day that TV is on in an average U.S. home: 6 hours, 47 minutes
Percentage of Americans that regularly watch television while eating dinner: 66
Number of hours of TV watched annually by Americans: 250 billion
Value of that time assuming an average wage of S5/hour: S1.25 trillion
Percentage of Americans who pay for cable TV: 56
Number of videos rented daily in the U.S.: 6 million
Number of public library items checked out daily: 3 million
Percentage of Americans who say they watch too much TV: 49

II CHILDREN

Approximate number of studies examining TV's effects on children: 4,000
Number of minutes per week that parents spend in meaningful
conversation with their children: 3.5
Number of minutes per week that the average child watches television: 1,680
Percentage of day care centers that use TV during a typical day: 70
Percentage of parents who would like to limit their children's TV watching: 73
Percentage of 4-6 year-olds who, when asked to choose between watching TV
and spending time with their fathers, preferred television: 54
Hours per year the average American youth spends in school: 900 hours
Hours per year the average American youth watches television: 1500

III VIOLENCE

Number of murders seen on TV by the time an average child finishes elementary school: 8,000
Number of violent acts seen on TV by age 18: 200,000
Percentage of Americans who believe TV violence helps precipitate real life mayhem: 79

IV. COMMERCIALISM

Number of 30-second TV commercials seen in a year by an average child: 20,000
Number of TV commercials seen by the average person by age 65: 2 million
Percentage of survey participants (1993) who said that TV commercials
aimed at children make them too materialistic: 92
Rank of food products/fast-food restaurants among TV advertisements to kids: 1
Total spending by 100 leading TV advertisers in 1993: $15 billion

V. GENERAL

Percentage of local TV news broadcast time devoted to advertising: 30
Percentage devoted to stories about crime, disaster and war: 53.8
Percentage devoted to public service announcements: 0.7
Percentage of Americans who can name The Three Stooges: 59
Percentage who can name at least three justices of the U.S. Supreme Court: 17

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