[Preachin']

"They may have been around but not very common place. We did not get our first TV until the mid 60's"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television

Regular network broadcasting began in the United States in 1946, and television became common in American homes by the middle 1950s.

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That's pretty cool. I did not know TV went back to the 1940s.

[racing fan]

You should check out these books if you can find them: Please Stand By A Prehistory of Television by Michael Ritchie and A History of Broadcasting (three volumes) by Erik Barnouw. I enjoyed reading them.

[boxerblues]

Regular network broadcasting began in the United States in 1946, and television became common in American homes by the middle 1950s.

and by the year 2007 half of all Freepers have discarded their TV's forlack of suitable programming

[RobRoy]

>>That's pretty cool. I did not know TV went back to the 1940s.<<

I believe it was invented around 1929 in Great Briton. IIRC, it was even being broadcast in the 30's in GB but the war put everything on hold.

[ruthles]

My grandma was born in 1900, and I remember thinking she didn't get a radio until she was 27 and a tv until in her '40's. They were comfortable financially.