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Author: Irene Revallio
By the time the typical U.S. youth has reached eighteen years of age they would have spent about 25000 hours watching tv. This means they would have actually spent more time watching televison than learning at school.
The 1st colour television transmission occurred in John Logie Bairds English
The first ever TV advert in history lasted twenty seconds and was for a clock manufactured by a corporation called Bulova. This company also manufactured the 1st timepiece that went into space. The commercial was seen in July 1941 and went out during a game being played by the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies.
The famous revolving globe that is utilized by the NBC news series spent many years turning in the wrong direction. In 1984 this was eventually found and on January 2nd this was put right and now the globe is turning correctly.
Way back in 1950 only 10 percent of U.S. households had a television in their possession. By 1960 this had changed to an unbeleivable 90 percent whilst today it is 99 percent with fifty four percent of U.S youngsters having one in their bedroom. Now more of us have tv's than we do a phone.
The highest ever fee given to do a television advertisement was $2,000,000 per thirty seconds of time. This was paid by advertisers to run their adds during the very last American screening of the popular comedy series friends. The show was aired by American TV company NBC on May 6 2004 and lasted for a whole hour.
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