Lesson 4 Turning Off the World.docVIP

Lesson 4 Turning Off TV: A Quiet Hour Information related to the text: US television--- yesterday and today A demonstration of television was held at New York World’s Fair in 1939, and during the 1940s networks were established and television sets began to be sold. But, for a while, radio still had complete control of the entertainment industry. It was in the 1950s that television started to take the place of radio in the United States, and in the early 1960s over 750 TV stations were telecasting to about 52 million sets with the result that the American TV audience included almost every fami