Like most members of our generation, we spent each afternoon after school dutifully watching TV. Sure, there were after-school clubs and sleepovers, but for the most part CITV, and CBBC – chunks of weird television shows for kids featuring everything from talking aardvarks to evil mastermind mice – kept us company, and while we pretended… Read More »

In this age of technology, most homes will have at least one television that sits in the room and is often taken for granted. But in reality, today’s televisions are a testament to many years of development and feats of engineering that started way back in the 1800s.   Black and White Era Initially, television… Read More »

Women face many disadvantages when it comes to being a member of the military. First, women are outnumbered by men, as only 14% of active soldiers are made up of females. Second, though women can be strong, their physical strength is usually not as strong as their male counterparts. Third, their body types are much… Read More »

TV has become part and partial of everyone’s life today. After office hours, end, and one reaches home the first thing one has to do is to look for the remote to switch on to their favorite shows. The high-definition service from various satellite TV and cable TV has escalated the figure of subscribers. Thus,… Read More »

It’s been through several format changes, different hosts, and shuffling timeslots. But American Idol is still the biggest singing competition on television. When a young person puts their video on YouTube, there’s a good chance they’re thinking about winning American Idol. It still inspires dreams and serves as a goal for burgeoning talent around the… Read More »

It used to be common to have to wait a significant length of time for films to move from theaters onto broadcast television. Pre-video, films often returned to theaters for longer runs, before eventually winding up on networks. Until the rise of video and cable television in the 1980s and 1990s in the world, having… Read More »