television age
Screen-dominated period
The television age is the era when television became the dominant mass medium, roughly from the 1950s through the early 2000s.
The phrase typically appears in historical contrast—either with the radio age that preceded it or the internet age that followed: Politicians who thrived in the television age struggle with social media.
It evokes a time of shared cultural moments, when millions watched the same broadcasts simultaneously.
- broadcastTransmitted media signal
- broadcast signalWirelessly transmitted media wave
- cathodeElectrode current exits through
- antennaBroadcast signal receiver
- sitcomEpisodic TV comedy series
primetime · family hour · appointment viewing · commercials · rabbit ears · channels · channel surfing · remote · static · tube · boob tube · small screen · networks · Nielsen · couch potato · golden age · TV dinner · reruns
- 20th century cultureRoaring Twenties, Jazz Age, Great Depression, baby boom, counterculture
- postwar eraMarshall Plan, prosperity, reconstruction, Cold War, iron curtain
- Canadian HistoryConfederation, Rupert's Land, colonial era, colonial government, self-government
- Postwar FranceCharles de Gaulle, de Gaulle, Marshall Plan, economic boom, modernization
television agestreaming era
Period of internet-delivered media
digital age · social media era · smartphone era · oral tradition · silent film era
television, televise, televised, televising, televisions, tele, vision, visions, visual