Image in My Head

I chose this image because it feels like I'm looking into a box and traveling back in time watching the Honeymooners. What a great show that was. So, this is my time traveling image to look back at old tv shows.

Taken from www.tvhistory.tv

What Have I Learned

The history of television is what I'm happy I've learned so far.
Amateurs were making there own inventions to transmit sound. Then the fact that the patents were bought from citizens. The companies retained the rights and they used it for the growing demand of war purposes. Then after the war is when the entertainment purposes were embarked upon because the radio needed something else to do to survive.
I like to know how things were started, history was always my favorite subject in school.
So the beginning stages of the tv/radio are what I am happy to of learned so far :)

Old Schhol TV Vs. New School

So on this weeks project I watched an old program called The Honeymooners that originally aired on October 1, 1955. The reason I chose this was because I actually remember my father watching it as I was growing up. The main characters name is Ralph who also has a kind of goofy neighbor named Ed who lives up stairs from him. Then you have Trixie who is Alice's best friend (Alice being Ralph's wife). This show is really about marital combat, which is based on Ralph's and Alice's arguments. Ralph would say his famous line "One of these days pow, right to the kisser" and then the show would always end with Alice saying "Baby, you're the greatest".
The show, although ground breaking for it's time, resembles a lot of sitcoms on TV now , for instance, King of Queens, Roseanne, Still Standing, Reba. All these shows are based upon arguments with the family especially being the husband and wife or ex-husband and wife. I also think that all these shows are based on topics that would happen in real life.

The television I watched this week

The only television I watched this week was the Super Bowl. I was in Rutland most of the weekend visiting family. I watched the Super Bowl mostly for the commercials and tradition, without the Patriots in it, it's just not as meaningful to me. I was hoping the Cardinals would win but the refs gave them some very bad calls. Watching refs decide the Super Bowl is just completely turning me off from football, although I wills always watch it, it just bugs me. There were some great commecials, I liked the one where they astronaunts were on the moon and some aliens stole there tires. I also liked the interview Matt Lauer gave to the president Barack Obama before the game, I think it's great that we have a president so interested in sports, hopefully he'll take care of the college football system. So that was about it, I'll try and tune in a bit more to tv this week.