Question

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How did television affect Americans in the late 1940s and early 1950s?

Answer 1

b

Answer 2

what do u mean b... i haven't even gave u the choices!!!
a. It was a disruptive force and often caused problems in communities.

b. It had the tendency to bring people together in social settings.

c. It had little effect; most people thought television was bad and refused to watch it.

d.It caused a significant drop in school attendance nationwide.

Answer 3

b

Answer 4

ok how u know were u guessing?? girl whats worng w/ u?? lol

Answer 5

r u like a psychic or something??lol

Answer 6

no i hadthat question before

Answer 7

really what grade r u in?? what school do u go to?? when did u have it???

Answer 8

why u askiin me all this questions

Answer 9

Please explain direct answers. If not you can be warned or suspended from OpenStudy.

Answer 10

How did you say what the answer was when he didn't even put it up yet?

Answer 11

*cough* She.. It's a she...

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Answer 12

I can try to explain it to you, your question :)

Answer 13

wait what u guys r confusing me?? did i do something wrong?? a what question??

Answer 14

How are we confusing you?

Answer 15

No you did not, I meant to make a new comment saying I'd help you xD

Answer 16

becausr i just had that question

Answer 17

*because*

Answer 18

oh.. and YES am a girl... silly gooses!!lol but she already answered it... but the questions w/ answers are at the top!!

Answer 19

Direct answers are not allowed, if you would like I can have a moderator explain that to you @inloveyou

Answer 20

When television finally came to America in the late 1940s, few could disguise their fascination with what some dubbed "the home screen." Many saw their first telecasts in bars, which won or retained customers by installing sets, often tuned to an early filler of the schedule, professional wrestling. In department store appliance departments and store windows, people stared at television sets and asked about prices and installation costs. Many entrepreneurs temporarily entered TV set retailing. In some localities, sets could be bought at beauty parlors, gas stations, and dry cleaners.

Television sales took off in the late 1940s following the start of individual stations in the largest cities. Only in such heavily populated places was the relatively high cost of starting and operating a station considered economically viable. TV set ownership thus initially possessed a big-city or, more accurately, metropolitan-area bias. Of the 102,000 TV sets in the United States in early 1948, two-thirds were in the New York area, from which most of the first TV stations operated. Those living more than seventy-five miles from such urban centers as New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Boston, or Los Angeles could do little more than read about TV. Living in South Dakota, the family of Tom Brokaw, the future NBC news anchor, did not have a TV until 1955. A year earlier, an unpublished NBC study indicated that only 9 percent of all homes in South Dakota had TV sets, compared to 66 percent of all Illinois homes.

The first buyers, in addition to living in or near large cities, were often well-to-do. Such people had the discretionary income and some fascination with what later came to be known as "new technologies." But their decision to buy sets frequently carried an additional cost. Relatives, friends, and neighbors groped for an excuse to drop by to watch TV. In what became "TV parties," the set owner was frequently expected to serve food and drink.

Although the poorest members of communities were among the last to purchase TVs, the upper-class bias to set ownership quickly changed. The number of homes with TVs increased from 0.4 percent in 1948 to 55.7 percent in 1954 and to 83.2 percent four years later. No other household technology, not the telephone or indoor plumbing, had ever spread so rapidly into so many homes. And TV had absorbed evenings that had once been spent reading, listening to the radio, or going to the movies. By the mid-1950s, wrote Leo Bogart, TV's first historian, "Television had established its place as the most important single form of entertainment and of passing the time."

What happened? Some argue that the very coming of a technology like television explains its diffusion. This is a variation on what has been called "technological determinism," the theory that the mere presence of a technology accounts for its spread. Yet recent studies of the popularization of other new technologies in history, including the cheap "penny" newspapers and the telegraph, suggest that potential buyers of such services can and will, for a variety of reasons, resist using them. Consumers must have the time and income; or there must be cultural or social justifications for the purchase of what at the time was an expensive new appliance.

http://www.lib.niu.edu/1993/ihy930341.html

>_> The first paragraph should explain it all. I just thought the info was interesting.

Answer 21

well im sorry

Answer 22

so.. r u guys saying her answers wrong??

Answer 23

Well @faylynn she is physic... But yes I believe the answer is wrong

Answer 24

lol... then what is it?? can u tell me that??

Answer 25

@TheRealMeeeee do u not like me or something

Answer 26

It's not part the question.....but NO!!!!!

Answer 27

y i did nothin to u

Answer 28

will some JUST answer my question?? and why do u like her??

Answer 29

I have a girlfriend already -_- and I still wouldn't go with you

Answer 30

Please close this thread. You have your answer. STAY ON TOPIC. Now everyone leave :) @faylynn the information provided will help you fully determine if B is correct.

Answer 31

hey.. can u fan me so i can i can ask u a question?? please!! @TheRealMeeeee

Answer 32

why do i have to close it??

Answer 33

Answered questions are to be closed. So it does not take up space

Answer 34

I don't Fan girls Because I have my Future wife to talk to

Answer 35

r u to like dating or something...@beccaboo333 @TheRealMeeeee.... and why do i have to go through u to talk to him??