TV lecture

I went into this lecture, like the movie lecture expecting to know a lot of the information, due to my high consumption level of tv and movies. But I was completely blown out of the water by some of the history of the tv and how it evolved from a trivial pass time that was considered boring, to being in the home of nearly every American in the country. Not only was the history quite interesting, but as was learning about the business and process involved with a tv show. This may have been due the fact that I had a lot of preconceived notions about television that I had thought were true and when I found out that either they were just facts of legends or not true at all, I was very confused. It was like getting my entire perception of television flipped on its head. The main fact that had thrown me off course was, when I first learned about television, I never learned that when it took a long time for it to really gain its footing as a mass media. So I just assumed from what's depicted in television today about the time, that it had, when first invented, been revolutionary and everyone wanted one. I always imagined a scene similar to that in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the Tim Burton remake, not the original) where all of the children and adults rush into the store and try to buy them. But it was amazing to me to learn that was very very false. And that it was nearly the complete opposite of that, until actual shows were starting to play and then the consumers started to want them, but even then it took a little while for them to become interested even after the shows started. I personally really thought this lecture was very informational as a whole and seemed kind of fast paced but that may have been just the day.