It had the tendency to bring people together in social settings.
The emergence of the television affected American culture in the 1950's because many families gathered together to watch the television, and brought families together.
The postwar boom of the 1950s affected many white Americans by causing them to move out of the cities and into suburban developments. Many people held "white collar" jobs and moved away from farming.
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Radio and newspapers were the two biggest news sources.
THe 1950s are considered the golden age of television.
While televisions were available in the 1930s, the popularity only increased drastically in homes during the late 1940s to the 1950s.
No, the television was developed and introduced to the commercial market in the 1940s and 1950s, about halfway into the twentieth century.
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The first TV newscasts were just a few minutes long. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, they expanded to about 15 minutes and stayed that way until the late 1950s.
Cars, Televisions, and Houses.
In the 1940s and 1950s, Americans had a cultural hysteria about the Soviet threat.
There really wasn't a 'transition', and radio is still around. TV began to spread to many large 'markets' in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Frozen dinners. Power tools. Televisions.
Some popular TV Westerns include shows like Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Wagon Train, Rawhide and The Big Valley. Western televisions became popular in the late 1940s and 1950s.
In the early 1950s,they showed old 1920's through 1940s cartoons on TV for kids. Mostly as a way to fill in time slots. Made for TV cartoons started sometime in the same decade.
The television first became popular in the United States in the mid-to-late 1940s. After World War II the television industry experienced a dramatic surge in production as the public began to embrace this new technology. By 1949 over 12 million sets had been sold and by the 1950s most households in America had at least one television. Mid-to-late 1940s: Television becomes popular in the United States 1949: Over 12 million sets sold 1950s: Most households in America have at least one television
Before television became widespread in the 1950s, many Americans got their news from newspapers, radio broadcasts, and newsreels shown in movie theaters. Newspapers were the primary source of information and updates on current events for the general public.