10 amazing facts you might not know about television
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 studio back
in 1928.This transmission showed some blue and red scarves and a
UK policeman's hat. Also shown was a mixed bunch of flowers, a
guy poking his tongue out and the smouldering end of a
cigarette. 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. Man's largest television set was unveiled in the
Japanese city of Tsukuba and measured 24.3m by 45.7m [ 80ft by
150ft ]. It was used in the 1985 Japanese International
Exposition and displayed a series of specially created films
containing varied artistic and cultural creations. The largest
number of adverts featuring a companies president were made for
Wendy's Hamburger restaurants in the United States and featured
Dave Thomas the corporation creator. In all he has starred in
652 adverts with the shortest being five seconds and the longest
being sixty seconds. These commercials have won thirty six major
advertising awards and have made Dave as well known as his Food.
Whilst viewing an episode of the hit Japanese kids show Pokemon
over seven hundred Japanese children were rushed to hospital
with severe convulsions and trauma. This was caused by a ten
second scene in which the shows star Pikachu flashed his big red
eyes to the sound of a huge booming explosion. In the States the
largest section of the Television audience is made up of
pre-school children.On average their weekly viewing turns out to
be in the area of 30.4 hours which means by the age of 17 they
would have amassed about 15000 hours of television watching.
Amazingly this adds up to a staggering two years of solid
viewing.