Every country either has state run tv paid for from taxation or tv stations like the BBC paid for by a tv licence. Then no need for advertising.
What would the world be like without television?
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Simpsons (at least the "classic" seasons) was more "slice-of-life". While there were comics like that pre-tv, they were mainly teen or kid-based, while the more "suburban family" stuff was relegated to newspaper comics. Also, a lot of the Simpsons appeal was the mockery of pop culture, something that would be hard to do without tv.
Another problem is "product placement". Consider that you can't stop or enforce whether a person decides to wear an Armani suit, or drinks a Coca-Cola, especially if they place it on their car or suit. Just try to avoid the ads on NASCAR or NFL, or even WWE matches.
Product placement only legal in UK within last few years.(Then only after prolonged pressure for the 10 to 15 years before that)
It might be worth it if we could get rid of the Kardashian's and Honey Boo Boo.
I had never heard of Honey Boo Boo before and now I wish I hadn't! What an awful, sad programme. One of the first things to come up in a search was "Honey Boo Boo's family dresses up as the Kardashians" I really don't understand that whole Kardashian thing (I've never seen their show, either but that doesn't stop them being mentioned by news services for no reason at all), though full marks to them for working out how to manipulate the media into giving them lots of money.
Italy doesn't, and it has the worst TV I have ever seen!!! Don't let them take away your state-owned TV, it prevents (or at least provides an alternative to) such rubbish!!
What would the world be like without television? I've experienced it. I lived in Sri Lanka in 1970-71, when there wasn't any TV. We went to the swimming club a lot (I nave never been a sporty type but was a terrific swimmer by the time I left) and played all sorts of board games and card games. We made Airfix kits. I used to make up stories using my toy soldiers but unfortunately nobody introduced me to wargaming - I've I'd known about wargaming it would have been heaven! We listened to the radio (a poem I wrote was read out on the local radio station), played records (over and over again!), and went to the cinema. We went to all sorts of fascinating and fun places. We used to make things out of paper and discarded packaging. Then we went back to England, where there was only three TV channels, and they shut down every evening or even in the afternoon. Programmes were not repeated, and I gave up piano lessons so I could watch Dr Who (probably saw those episodes umpteen times since in Australia). It was gob-smacking marvellous to go to Australia and watch four channels of 24 hour TV. We just sat there and watched for hours on end and eventually my mother banned TV for six months at a time so we would do our homework. I think that there are some terrific TV programmes (love watching the really good documentaries) but life is less stressful and more fulfilling without TV.
Depends what you mean by computer, the first Turing-complete machine in the world was Konrad Zuse's Z3 of 1941, which is before even Baird had a working colour TV going (that came in 1944), so, no, the computer and the TV were invented at around the same time, and if you were to use punched-tape, keyboards and Nixie tubes, you could theoretically develop computers without screens.
Excuse me what were they using at Bletchley Park at the end of the war? Oh yes a computer! And without screens.
Have I got News for You was dervied from the Radio 4 series The News Quiz.
Thomas the Tank Engine was broadcast on the program Listen with Mother on the Home Service in the fifties.
There have been a number of Doctor Who Radio series, many featuring Paul McGann as the eighth Doctor broadcast on BBC Radio 7.
Cheers,
Nigel.
Yes,l but at least in this case the TV series came first, so unless oyu can make a series of short movies...