Television

Ten things you might want to know about television - We all know that television is the main source of entertainment for all of us and especially (perhaps unfortunately) for our children. For kids one of the best ways to pass time is watching TV. There are varieties of channels for children's entertainment. Television is something very attracting for them which shows varieties of cartoons, movies, dramas, kid shows etc. Hence kids do spend more time watching TV rather than playing or studying. We can say that by the time the normal American teenager crosses their 18th year of life they would have spent about 25,000 hours watching television. There are numerous interesting facts related to television which everybody is keen to know, some of them are: "In year 1928 man's first color television transmission occurred in John Logie Bairds UK studio that showed some blue and red scarves and a London policeman's hat. Also pictured was a mixed bunch of flowers, a gent poking his tongue out and the glowing end of a cigarette". "Bulova, a clock manufacturing company released the first television add of 20 seconds that was seen in July 1941. This company also manufactured the first ever watch that went into space". "In 1984 it became known that the well known revolving globe that is used by the NBC news series spent many years turning in the incorrect direction and on January 2nd it was put on right direction, now the globe is revolving in the proper manner". "The first toy advertised on TV was the "Mr. Potato head" product which was brought to the view of millions of American TV viewers and even now can be seen in the well known "Toy story" animated films". "In the year 1950 only 10 percent of US households had a television in their possession and this had changed to an amazing 90 percent in 1960 while today it is 99 percent". "American actor Jerry Seinfeld was the only TV personality who was paid an unbelievable $1,000,000 per episode. The program lasted eight years and this still makes Jerry the highest paid TV actor so far". "700 Japanese youngsters were rushed to hospital with severe convulsions and trauma while viewing an episode of famous Japanese cartoon Pokemon; this was caused by the cartoon hero Pikachu flashing his red eyes to the sound of a massive booming explosion". "Some early experimental TV transmissions began way back in 1928 by station W2XBS and featured a test figurine of the well known Felix the cat". "In the USA the largest section of the Television audience is made up of pre-school children and their weekly TV consumption is about 30.4 hours".

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