by Irving Fang and Ann Norris
ISBN: 1-933-01178-5The average American television set is on for 7 hours 45 minutes a day. City streets are deserted each evening. Have you noticed the bluish light from television sets in people’s houses? Walk down any street and you will see that bluish glow from television sets in darkened rooms of house after house.
Possibly more than school, church, community, and maybe even family, television is the national educator and standard setter. Yet no responsible person either inside or outside the television industry ever said this is desirable.
The telegraph, telephone, motion picture, radio, and the post office each radically changed the way we get information and entertainment. Television has gone further, affecting how we spend our hours and our money, how we relate to others, what we talk about and think about, what we wear and what we eat.TV, the ninth in the 11-volume series, The Story of Communication, takes us from the early years of experimenting to a world of satellite signals, cable channels, optical fiber no thicker than a human hair, set-top boxes, and HDTV.
