By the time the normal American teenager becomes eighteen years of age they would have spent about 25000 hours watching Television. This means they would have actually spent more time watching TV than learning at school.

Mans 1st colour television transmission occurred in John Logie Bairds UK studio back in 1928.This transmission showed some blue and red scarves and a London policeman's hat. Also pictured was a mixed bunch of flowers, a gent poking his tongue out and the glowing end of a cigarette.

The first Television add in history lasted 20 seconds and was for a clock manufactured by a company known as Bulova. This company also manufactured the first ever watch that went into space. The advert was seen in July 1941 and went out during a game being played by the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies.

The well known revolving globe that is used by the NBC news series spent many years turning in the incorrect direction. In 1984 this was eventually found and on January 2nd this was put right and now the globe is revolving in the proper manner.

The first toy ever advertised on tv was the "Mr potato head" product. He was brought to the view of millions of American TV viewers and even now can be seen in the well known "Toy story" animated films.

Way back in 1950 only 10 percent of US households had a television in their possession. By 1960 this had changed to an amazing 90 percent whilst today it is 99 percent with 54 percent of American youngsters having one in their bedroom. Now more of us own TV's than we do a phone.

The highest known annual earnings for a TV star were given to American sit com actor Jerry Seinfeld.He was paid an unbelievable $1000000 per episode. The program lasted eight years and although this fee came into play in about 1997 this still makes Jerry the highest paid TV actor so far.

Whilst viewing an episode of the famous Japanese cartoon Pokemon over seven hundred Japanese youngsters were rushed to hospital with severe convulsions and trauma. This was caused by a ten second part in which the cartoons hero Pikachu flashed his large red eyes to the sound of a massive booming explosion.

Some early experimental TV transmissions began way back in 1928 by station W2XBS and featured a test figurine of the well known Felix the cat. Although these transmissions were only showing a model Felix the cat he will always be able to maintain his place in the Television hall of fame as the foremost genuine Television actor.

In the USA the largest section of the Television audience is made up of pre-school children. Onaverage their weekly tv consumption works out to be about 30.4 hours which means by the age of 17 they would have amassed about 15000 hours of television watching. Astonishingly this adds up to a staggering 2 years of non stop viewing.

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