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@CozyPiper
December 23, 2025 at 6:10 pm
When I lived in WV, the one network they had signed off at midnight. They showed a photo if the Anerican glag and played The national anthem by Van Halen😂 This was in 2003!!!
@masterimbecile
December 23, 2025 at 6:12 pm
Must be nice to watch TV for a living
@leonguyen896
December 23, 2025 at 6:16 pm
What an incredible piece of history. I had no idea these things had so much history. I’d always thought they were some boring relics the elderly brought with them to old folks’ homes.
@mostly_insane2291
December 23, 2025 at 6:18 pm
A friend of mine produced and acted in a modern day version of Hamlet for our local cable access channel. Shot around and on the streets of our small town, but with the actual dialogue as written by Shakespeare. It was pretty bad though but I didn’t tell him that 😂
@gravitationalslipstream
December 23, 2025 at 6:24 pm
No mention of ‘Gunsmoke’ in a discussion of TV history is a big FAIL in my book.
@FNLNFNLN
December 23, 2025 at 6:35 pm
All that woke politics really ruined TV back in the day huh.
@snoozing68
December 23, 2025 at 6:37 pm
Now that it was mentioned, I remember when network channels would play the national anthem or god bless america before signing off and then… nothing but statistic and white noise.
@julianmacdonald3343
December 23, 2025 at 6:38 pm
Doctor who fans. where you at? We brought a show back!!!
@cygnusvideo
December 23, 2025 at 6:45 pm
I have been glued to a television or a screen of some kind for what is like 41 years now , and I’d like to say this is my favorite YouTube video – thank you for making it.
@mainfrym
December 23, 2025 at 6:52 pm
You forgot to credit Lucille Ball for making star trek happen!
@Cirieno
December 23, 2025 at 7:17 pm
Curious UK erasure in this video.
@rickrother2094
December 23, 2025 at 7:24 pm
Just fantastic insights! So many wonderful nuggets of information every time. When I thought the question was going to go one way. She really veered into really interesting areas. Well done!
@Kaice88
December 23, 2025 at 7:27 pm
Crazy how far we’ve come that back then even something like television could be seen as gendered or “feminine”. It’s wild how much importance we put into gender, and what is and isn’t masculine or feminine, on both sides of the scale when in reality it doesn’t mean much when it comes down to who you are as a person. It yeah come so far, have so far to go though great video so far.
@brianstrandberg9346
December 23, 2025 at 7:28 pm
Gotta say – love that blazer
@christopherwalker2228
December 23, 2025 at 7:29 pm
I’ve never really been into soaps. I did see some as a kid when I was with my paternal grandmother, who loved her CBS soaps… she would even yell at the screen like they could hear her (my maternal grandmother never liked anything serialized though, she wanted a beginning and end in 1 sitting). Anyway, I am into trivia and factoids about pretty much anything and everything. And soaps have an interesting history.
They started off on radio and then tv and they were all out of NYC. Because that was the center of stage theater. So soaps would employ actors when they weren’t doing a play. The 2 together kept actors employed. That’s a nutshell synopsis, there’s more to it, but it really is interesting if you’re into the early days of those mediums.
@nathm055
December 23, 2025 at 7:35 pm
Biggest snub was that Jason Alexander never won for George on Seinfeld throughout its entire run. Say what you want about the character being obnoxious, but it was an absolutely masterful representation, brilliantly and consistently manifested over nine seasons. Every time passed over for someone sexier.
@Bartisoft
December 23, 2025 at 7:50 pm
Not that i’m complaining…but the title should be “Professor Answers American Television History Questions”…
@EnsignSteve
December 23, 2025 at 7:56 pm
Shout out to a fellow Terrier!
@NightDriverFive
December 23, 2025 at 8:01 pm
Re the question posed by the headline, that you have to watch the whole video to find, no one in the room can even begin to make the argument, that South Park episodes like the one about Guitar Hero, or Dolphin and Whale, aren’t worth the time. Its some of the best animation ever made. Its inassailable.
@Concreteowl
December 23, 2025 at 8:03 pm
These are entirely US questions and answers. Other countries exist.
@Chonkster1
December 23, 2025 at 8:14 pm
I can’t believe the degrees they hand out, and the courses they think important to teach….TV….really.
@skmo7105
December 23, 2025 at 8:17 pm
Tgif (or at least that family-oriented block) predated disney buying abc
@vvblues
December 23, 2025 at 8:18 pm
And despite all the major advancements in culture that TV brought us we’ve gone backwards to a lack of empathy, intolerance, and white nationalism. All In The Family and Good Times could never exist today because of the sound of panties twisting.
@toddverbeek5113
December 23, 2025 at 8:20 pm
Lucille Ball revolutionized television *twice*: making both “I Love Lucy” and “Star Trek” happen.
@emmaaa10
December 23, 2025 at 8:21 pm
i had professor howell a few years ago for a television history class and she was super kind and knowledgeable! so cool to see her answering questions for wired
@avocadoalpukat
December 24, 2025 at 9:35 am
MORE TELEVISION (HISTORY) SUPPORT PLEASE!
@the_petty_crocker
December 24, 2025 at 9:56 am
Some of these comments are asinine. Ranters angry that their beliefs aren’t upheld or paid enough attention. Those who disbelieved until they did their own “research.” Those angry that a US professor on the US website of a US magazine is discussing American TV. WTF, people?
@GlorifiedTruth
December 24, 2025 at 10:41 am
“Explain it to me like I’m five.” People, we need to shitcan this lead-in.
@StevesGamingPart2
December 24, 2025 at 10:57 am
This would be 100% better if it wasn’t so American based.
@dkalambokis78
December 24, 2025 at 11:42 am
Most wired are about usa guys. Really a bumper
@HappyRogueVV
December 24, 2025 at 11:44 am
I was expecting television history across the world and more of the technical aspect of it. It was almost only the history of American tv shows and stations.
@andrewtomei6620
December 24, 2025 at 12:12 pm
18:32 12 Angry Men was nominated for several Oscars, but sadly it didn’t actually win any
@grantgrow
December 24, 2025 at 4:08 pm
Correct. I think it had 3 nominations, but lost to Bridge over the River Kwai
@johnpeace971
December 24, 2025 at 12:23 pm
I thought the thumbnail was Pauly Shore
@johnpeace971
December 24, 2025 at 12:31 pm
To the guy who asked about 90s people being unhappy with their family because TV families were more perfect…I watched Married With Children and Malcolm in the Middle. I thought my family was perfect!
@erakfishfishfish
December 24, 2025 at 4:35 pm
To be fair, both of those shows aired on Fox, which branded itself as edgier counter-programming to the other more wholesome networks. Also, Married With Children premiered in 1987! (In fairness, the bulk of its run was in the 90s.)
@j.a.weishaupt1748
December 24, 2025 at 12:41 pm
WHY IS SHE SHOUTING DURING THE ENTIRE VIDEO?!
@TheWolverine-ff2rs
December 24, 2025 at 1:34 pm
Having lived through analog signal tv – there was also the problem of airplanes disrupting the signals especially when the signal wasn’t local but regional. Cable took care of that problem, too. I’m surprised you didn’t at least mention children’s programming in the 50s. We had to wait after school (with a test pattern) until time for the network to broadcast ‘Howdy Doody’ – still all black and white tv.
@erakfishfishfish
December 24, 2025 at 4:26 pm
Every time my family made a London broil or a turkey, the electric knife would make the TVs go static.
@TheWolverine-ff2rs
December 24, 2025 at 6:29 pm
@erakfishfishfish Electric mixers too.
@SummerSausage1
December 24, 2025 at 2:01 pm
Associate Professor of Film and Television studies? This may be the only time someone will ever hire her outside of being a teacher. What do her students even become when they graduate?
@erakfishfishfish
December 24, 2025 at 4:41 pm
Any student seeking a career in film and/or TV production would benefit.
@T0mF0rd
December 24, 2025 at 2:16 pm
what happened to Saturday morning cartoons
@erakfishfishfish
December 24, 2025 at 4:57 pm
I’m guessing first the rise of cable with kid-dedicated networks like Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network, then the rise of streaming. There’s less of a need for a dedicated animated block when the digital babysitter is now available on demand 24/7.
@jamespuffer2889
December 24, 2025 at 2:42 pm
When you see all these “controversial” topics that were covered as far back as the 70s and 80s, it makes you realize how far back all these conservatives want to take our culture.
They don’t want to go back to the 1950s, they want to go back to the 1850s. Sad when people 50 years ago are more open minded and accepting than people are now.
@lucasharris1004
December 24, 2025 at 2:43 pm
Streaming took over big time its way better we have even more options today too
@subzippo
December 24, 2025 at 2:47 pm
22:55 that clip was the movie
@randallpetersen9164
December 24, 2025 at 3:27 pm
BJO TRIMBLE. That’s a name every Star Trek fan should know, because without her, STTOS would have ended after two seasons, and we’d probably have never seen it again.
@randallpetersen9164
December 24, 2025 at 3:43 pm
Babylon 5 also would not have existed without syndication, and even so it was a miracle that it got 5 seasons and finished telling its big story.
@randallpetersen9164
December 24, 2025 at 3:47 pm
No no no. Stations had to sign off so we could get to see those great closing shots of jet aircraft ‘touching the face of god’, before the fade to test pattern or snow.
@lorenzoarreola
December 24, 2025 at 4:47 pm
no mention of “the twilight zone” makes me not believe this
@erakfishfishfish
December 24, 2025 at 5:12 pm
11:15. The playwrights writing plays for the screen reminds me of a class I took in college. We watched an episode of an anthology show called The Philco Television Playhouse. The specific episode was “Marty” written by Paddy Chayefsky. He then adapted that teleplay for the big screen, and that version went on to win Oscars for Best Picture, Director (Delbert Mann),. Actor (Ernest Borgnine), and Screenplay (Chayefsky again, the first of 3 in his career).
Just to go full circle with the TV trivia, the woman who played the love interest in the original TV production of Marty was Nancy Marchand, who would win a mess of Emmys on Lou Grant and then, late in life, have a new surge in fame starring as Tony Soprano’s mother.
@micahkilpatrick9924
December 24, 2025 at 6:24 pm
People and politicians have panicked over newspapers, lude pictures in the ’20’s, radio, TV, comic books, music, Dungeons and Dragons, social reforms, the Internet, and AI. I’m starting to sense a pattern of ignorance and fear amongst the masses. We need more history teachers.
@Nowwhyamiinit
December 24, 2025 at 6:25 pm
7:56 Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Charmed(S1-4), and Xena never being nominated in or winning major categories.
@larissasplaylist
December 24, 2025 at 6:50 pm
0:20 Parents using the word “Devil” to refer to TV is not a good sign; it makes it clear that they are authoritarian and religiously fanatical parents.
@scottlarson1548
December 24, 2025 at 6:55 pm
She skipped one small part of the evolution of cable television. After being a community television antenna to help people receive local stations and before the addition of dedicated cable networks, cable providers also had independent out of market stations which they received through microwave towers. In the mid-70s our local cable company carried two stations in big cities both about 300 miles away which gave our little town programming that the three local stations never would have aired.
@azzu12
December 24, 2025 at 8:33 pm
Peter Boyle never winning an Emmy for everybody loves Raymond and Steve Carell never winning for the office are my biggest Emmy snubs.
@kellybennett4838
December 24, 2025 at 8:46 pm
This was awesome. Thank you so much!
@RLplusabunchofdumbnumbers
December 24, 2025 at 9:35 pm
“Without Dallas, we don’t get Gray’s Anatomy”
Cool, now we know who to blame.
@FernThatsALL
December 24, 2025 at 10:05 pm
And Now MTV is DEAD 🥲
@Longbajubi
December 25, 2025 at 12:08 am
If we talking about snub, Better Call Saul’s gotta be the one on the top of the list.
@HeadMitchInCharge
December 25, 2025 at 1:12 am
5:45 The internet once again proving that none of my experiences are unique to me.
@mack1305
December 25, 2025 at 1:25 am
17:03 My mother used old reruns of Flash Gordon to get me and my brother ready for school. If we made our beds, got dressed and ate breakfast early we could watch shows before we left for the school bus. (70’s)
@marcg5856
December 25, 2025 at 1:32 am
18:51 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@insomnime
December 25, 2025 at 1:47 am
Casually omitting Twin Peaks 💀
@capricorneum7745
December 25, 2025 at 2:17 am
Sarah Michelle Gellar not ever getting an Emmy nom for Buffy was the biggest snub IMO
@morganchilds9054
December 25, 2025 at 3:16 am
Who is mixing the audio? You should be ashamed of yourself.
@simonjones1342
December 25, 2025 at 6:35 am
Fascinating but so parochial. Every question and all the answers were as if America was the only country in the world.
This was AMERICAN TV History.
@gmhelwig
December 25, 2025 at 6:35 am
Why do we still call it “reality TV” when it is so clearly fake? It is worse than AI.
@TonyP_Yes-its-Me
December 25, 2025 at 7:22 am
This should be called “Professor Answers Television History Questions (as long as its America, because the the rest of the world doesn’t count)”.
@tomfinn739
December 25, 2025 at 10:38 am
That blazer! It goes perfectly with Film & Television studies. Reminds me of the.. Filmation maybe?… opening credits.
I bet you’re read “Glass Teat” by Harlan Ellison. If not, you should.
@elwoodbrown2431
December 25, 2025 at 11:43 am
Yeah we all have that coaxial fiber cable it’s the new thing. Idiot
@oyuyuy
December 25, 2025 at 11:43 am
Literally nothing in this video is relevant to anyone outside of the US. Expand your mind professor.
Also, if you want to do a video about ‘100 years of television’, why would you ask a 30-year-old?
@historianKelly
December 25, 2025 at 12:00 pm
I read a quote once:
“Television is called a ‘medium’ because it is neither rare nor well-done.”
@gamefanatics5113
December 25, 2025 at 12:52 pm
I remember seeing some really interesting stuff on in the middle of the night in the 90’s.
@kiloecho77
December 25, 2025 at 2:08 pm
How was southpark approved? probably because back then you had smart people in charge. and thank god for that. what other show besides family guy can take a mirror and put it up to the ugliness of society and certain individuals in it, laugh at them, and make fun of how f***ked up people and this world are? We need more of that, because so few people have even a hint of awareness of how disgusting and obnoxious they are. If you are offended, then good. makes you realize you are part of the problem.
@alaskansourdough7602
December 25, 2025 at 3:13 pm
LOL “real entertaining reality TV”. There is no such thing
@czechoutboom1597
December 25, 2025 at 4:40 pm
The biggest and most absurd Emmy snub was Better Call Saul. 53 nominations and not a single win? Unreal.
@enoraskye6020
December 25, 2025 at 5:10 pm
born in the early 70’s. I grew up on late 70’s, 80’s and 90’s TV. Can’t stand most of the garbage that came out in the mid 2000’s, and have literally not even owned a TV for the last 15 years.
@amiamiami974
December 25, 2025 at 6:17 pm
I need unedited versions of all of this series. I also need wired to make international channels. Wired Spain, Weird France…do it!!
@courtneybrezinski4665
December 25, 2025 at 9:29 pm
Hearing someone ask how tv worked before digital makes me feel so old 😢
@colinparris
December 25, 2025 at 10:34 pm
No mention at all of the BBCs role in early TV programming. Very USA centric… Don’t forget where TV was actually invented and which is the oldest TV station in the world.
@ericscarface
December 25, 2025 at 11:03 pm
No Twin Peaks? That is the first modern TV show.
@RadicalValkyrie
December 25, 2025 at 11:42 pm
Should have been titled American Television History Questions.
A number of these things didn’t relate to outside of America. Remember, the US isn’t the only country with TV broadcasting.
@jfbeam
December 26, 2025 at 2:58 am
“4 to 300+”… Physics. The FCC won’t license neighboring stations in the same market because they’ll cause interference. The VHF band is only a dozen channels in two bands. I grew up on the edge of 3 DMA’s, so we had many channels, if you used a good enough antenna and aimed it properly. “Cable” was born as “CATV” – Community Access TV – literally a shared antenna. What she’s talking about came later. (and can even be done with satellite systems… one dish, many receivers across many buildings.)
UHF added 14-83, but there were similar issues. And the FCC reclaimed the upper band for cellular use a few decades ago. Cable TV brought the number to 125 (analog) channels. Digital TV allows “streams” to be mixed into a single RF channel, so those 125 analog channels could carry 300+ stations. Satellite TV added yet more – essentially providing “more cables” via different orbital locations, different transponders, much higher carrier frequencies, … And now the modern world has added streaming, so there’s effectively no limit on the number of channels.
@vitreo1363
December 26, 2025 at 4:07 am
Surprised no one mentioned how impactful television was to the cultural status of Batman, Superman, Captain America & other fictional icons who were created at around the same time as television was; certainly not a coincidence.
@jfbeam
December 26, 2025 at 4:56 am
Wait a minute… (googles it) Disney bought ABC in 1996. So they really didn’t have anything to do with “TGIF” “through the 80’s and 90’s”
@seanoreilly1832
December 26, 2025 at 11:11 am
These comments are so bottish. It’s unbelievable
@terrancekayton
December 26, 2025 at 3:48 pm
I COULD’VE WENT TO SCHOOL TO STUDY T.V!!!???
@Larsemillarsen
December 26, 2025 at 4:29 pm
Interesting, but the title should be “American TV”
@gllyflower
December 26, 2025 at 6:23 pm
The once and always Emmy snub answer with always be Antony Starr as Homelander. Genre bias has robbed that man of Emmy recognition year after year…
@garciasa2z252
December 26, 2025 at 6:37 pm
I’m glad she gave a shout out to BattleStar Galactica.
@evanswinters5636
December 26, 2025 at 6:49 pm
I can’t believe the Simpsons didn’t come up in the 5 to 10 most important TV shows
@Maydaymayday84
December 27, 2025 at 12:03 am
You need to stop yelling. Ffs.
@timothyalton3821
December 27, 2025 at 12:36 am
Because not everybody is Kyle’s mom
@ZXY2024
December 27, 2025 at 12:41 am
Television history …. In the US. Very specific answers and view
@daiseysthebaby6071
December 27, 2025 at 4:12 am
Fascinating!! I learned so much.
@masterofallgoons
December 27, 2025 at 9:07 am
The biggest snub is Jason Alexander being the only main cast member never to win for Seinfeld.
@ca8rio8ca
December 27, 2025 at 11:33 am
Learning today that TLC is (was) the learning channel
@brandonselby9738
December 27, 2025 at 2:00 pm
26:35 I think a lot of the popularity of TV westerns in the 1950s (like “Wagon Train”, “Bonanza”, and “Laramie”) was because of the Civil Rights Movement. Brown v. Board of Education was in 1954. These TV shows offer a fantasy world where black people don’t exist and white men can be in charge, and also the fantasy of a type of masculinity that never really existed
@rickbannan7110
December 27, 2025 at 2:55 pm
That jacket is some serious drip
@odd_lad
December 27, 2025 at 3:44 pm
those up top ads were absolutely awful 😅
@carlossalazar-lermont8585
December 27, 2025 at 5:14 pm
5 -10 shows and doesn’t mention The Simpsons? The Simpsons changed animation for TV forever. It didn’t take long to just state this. Then, even if she already mentioned them previously, the Sopranos. I don’t think she stated why they influenced and still influence the TV that was done after that show. She actually explains the Golden Age skeptically, so maybe that’s why she doesn’t want to acknowledge the impact and quality of the show. The truth is that these shows changed TV forever and they’re excellent products. The omission is probably ideologically motivated
@MattMeier
December 27, 2025 at 7:22 pm
Literally was going to say BSG being snubbed and she said it!
@hollyhulewat8705
December 27, 2025 at 8:11 pm
Biggest Emmy Snub: 2025 – Diego Luna for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his performance in Andor.
@CitizenScorpio
December 27, 2025 at 8:33 pm
Her cadence isn’t the best. I’m headed out.
@rplieth
December 27, 2025 at 11:12 pm
Winona Ryder doppleganger? Especially the hisses in the s’s.
@peterpayne2219
December 28, 2025 at 1:26 am
You should have given Lucille Ball credit for demanding that a second pilot of Star Trek be made. We literally have Star Trek today because of Lucille Ball.
@Wildplease6463
December 28, 2025 at 2:22 am
This is like watching the sequel to White Chicks called White Chicks Go To Jail…. “My arm 😭😭 I’m going to have a BF!”
@FANKANable
December 28, 2025 at 3:29 am
I was raised by cable television and FM terrestrial radio
@contra-bassrecords874
December 28, 2025 at 3:53 am
That antenna is a hair on my screen no matter how many times I figure out that it’s not. 😤
@annetteziegler7944
December 28, 2025 at 6:32 am
@WI_Tech_Support: To understand the enigma that is present-day Russia, we need a support! Thank you!
@midnite4ever
December 28, 2025 at 9:25 am
I love the history lesson, but I don’t feel like she actually answered some of these questions. Is it just me?
@CaptainKwame1773
December 28, 2025 at 12:23 pm
My great-great-grandfather thought people were inside the television set, as the story goes. My grandmother said it would freak him out anytime one was turned on in the 1950s. He was born in 1870! Lol
@tomm3950
December 28, 2025 at 5:03 pm
‘Skipper!’
@MrScoobySnacks23
December 28, 2025 at 8:49 pm
This had to literally be the gayest and most feminine take on this topic possible
@Xanderall
December 28, 2025 at 10:15 pm
This segment needed to end on an animation of a TV turning off right after Ms. Howell clicked the remote
@steroq6699
December 28, 2025 at 11:06 pm
I hate that Mrs Howell has only an American perspective on television… There’s so much more to tell and so much that hasn’t been told 1.000 times…
@Dr3am3rsL0st
December 29, 2025 at 12:06 am
lol, this lady……. television is almost as old as radio, video aka film is older than recorded sound…. she’s half assing this video. hitler becomes popular by using the brand new medium…. radio to get his message to the masses.
@balancedpadawan
December 29, 2025 at 12:10 am
7:43 Battlestar Galactica shout out 🥳
@Saturnome
December 29, 2025 at 2:03 am
“Where’s The Simpsons!” “Where’s The Wire!” “Where’s Twin Peaks!” relax guys, no she ain’t mentioned your favorite tv show, it happens sometimes.
@bazzakrak
December 29, 2025 at 2:11 am
The biggest Emmy snub has to be Firefly, the BEST show ever made !!!
@godblessdogs
December 29, 2025 at 7:59 am
Battle Star Galactica represented!
@summervillains
December 29, 2025 at 3:02 pm
A lot of her points seem very undercooked and lacking in full understanding.
@alexramage4840
December 29, 2025 at 3:09 pm
How much student loan debt do “film and television” students rack up?
@samarindt
December 29, 2025 at 4:34 pm
CBS first season of Survivor was 2001 and the first season of the swedish series expedition Robinson was 1997, was there an even earlier version of this concept?
@lemapp
December 29, 2025 at 7:05 pm
Fun Fact: HBO started in Wilkes-Barre, PA. The combination of dense population and mountain terrain lead to early mass cable adoption.
@daveteves
December 29, 2025 at 8:04 pm
Disappointed Twin Peaks was not mentioned once. 🙁 It’s one of the most consequentially important TV show in television history.
@reptilemommy
December 30, 2025 at 1:34 am
21:12 I think an opportunity to mention the show Soap was missed here, that show was incredible. It dealt with lots of issues not being talked about enough
@timstoy6447
December 30, 2025 at 1:58 am
To the guy asking how TV worked before digital, as a Xillennial, I am assigning you a book report on your question
@psfilmsbob
December 30, 2025 at 9:50 am
Disney didn’t own ABC during the early TGIF years. So it wasn’t Disney’s influence that made it family-oriented programming.
@notreiley
December 30, 2025 at 3:25 pm
Love her explanations! Bring her back!!!
@takysoft
December 30, 2025 at 3:55 pm
For the first question, you took a prettttty looong time to answer without actually answering the question… Showing off your worthless studies I see….
Let’s just end this video here… not interested in another half hours of babbling…
@protector22222
December 30, 2025 at 5:50 pm
she sounds like wynona ryder
@katherinerichardson2273
December 30, 2025 at 6:01 pm
I Love Lucy was the first show either to show a couple in bed together or show pregnancy or both I don’t remember
@jesslees5
December 30, 2025 at 7:42 pm
Shocked that the Golden Girls didn’t get a mention!
@mariahchill9601
December 30, 2025 at 8:18 pm
I am digging her outfit and style! 💕💅🏼 Definitely fits the vibe of the video
@MarieJanePlatypus
December 30, 2025 at 10:33 pm
Lucille ball of I love Lucy was the reason Star Trek (one of the biggest and longest running tv series ever) has been made. She helped to pay for the pilot and had it go into syndication immediately. She pushed for it to get made because she believe in it. Best move ever!
@Cpt.Crash21
December 30, 2025 at 11:31 pm
I like this gal.
@hannahrae927
December 31, 2025 at 5:03 am
My grandma was the first one on her block with a tv! It was only half of a screen (her dad made it) but it was still a treat and all the neighborhood kids would come over and watch! lol.
@Ms.Opinionated
December 31, 2025 at 5:20 pm
The Wire is the best show!!!
@kcsnipes
December 31, 2025 at 6:01 pm
i was bored 1 min in
@JctsUK
January 1, 2026 at 2:03 pm
I’m a huge fan of this series and your experts are normally amazingly engaging and entertaining. This one however is like someone reading the phone book.
@TheJtyork420
January 1, 2026 at 5:16 pm
No the golden age was aeound 2000 when we had hindreds of channels making original content and not just a few streaming channels and like 5 networks still maling original content.
@milagros104
January 1, 2026 at 5:21 pm
13:31 Star Trek:: interracial kiss.
@nestor1460
January 1, 2026 at 5:30 pm
I’m shocked MTV didn’t even get mentioned! 😮 I know it’s trash now, but, in its, heyday, it was truly groundbreaking by introducing a new way of communicatiing music: the music video, which was an absolute and undeniable game-changer. I mean, video killed the radio star, am I right?