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Let's say that the 20th century evolves slightly differently than ours did:

-the United Kingdom grants home rule to Ireland (I'm guessing that means their own parliament, but still one whole island as part of the UK)
-TV penetration into the markets proceeds slightly faster than OTL, so that by 1936, ten years after Baird and Farnsworth, there are maybe 5,000 TVs each in the UK, Germany, and USA
-Berlin Olympics, 1936, the German president (name?) shakes the hand of Jesse Owens, seen on TVs wherever present in the US.
-Germany's monarchy collapsed earlier in WW1, and sues for peace. It loses only Alsace-Lorraine and North Schleswig. It continues today as a stable democratic republic.
-DuMont Television Network survives along with NBC, ABC, CBS to the present day.
-some form of war occurs in Europe in the late 30s, early 40s between France, Germany, Italy, Czechoslovakia, and Poland over the results of WW1. The result: Alsace-Lorraine returns to Germany. May or may not happen that the UK is drawn in, then the United States, then the USSR. Germany and Poland exchange populations, and Germans elsewhere in Europe are 'relocated' to Germany. Germany and Austria gain the Sudeten region, and may or may not unify (not important).
-in the US, the army desegregates earlier in the 40s; civil rights legislation passes slightly earlier; prayer is not removed from schools; JFK/LBJ do not get elected president/vice-president, and there is no Great Society.


It's pure speculation, and spotty, but the question is: how do the cultures of the UK, US, and Germany develop with earlier television, more TV stations earlier on, and having a slightly different run of the first half of the century? Does the UK still go broke and lose the empire? Does the US still go on to be a superpower in opposition to the USSR? How does Germany develop not having caused the second world war, but having been on the winning side of whatever replacement war happens? Any other effects on European or World politics after this? Does our selection of TV shows change much, if at all? Do we still get the Beatles? Does Jazz and big band music last longer? Rock and Roll change?

Any helpful ideas are welcome.
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