television era
Time of screens
The television era refers to the period when broadcast television dominated mass media and popular culture, roughly from the late 1940s through the early 2000s.
The phrase typically appears in retrospective discussions contrasting that time with the current streaming or digital era: In the television era, everyone watched the same shows at the same time.
It evokes shared cultural moments—families gathered around a single screen, watercooler conversations about last night's episode—that fragmented media has largely displaced.
- broadcastTransmitted media signal
- broadcast networkFree TV programming distributor
- sitcomEpisodic TV comedy series
- antennaBroadcast signal receiver
- staticWithout motion or change
channels · channel surfing · primetime · prime time · family hour · commercials · cathode · rabbit ears · network · reruns · syndication · living room · couch · couch potato · TV dinner · remote · black and white · Nielsen
- 20th century cultureRoaring Twenties, Jazz Age, Great Depression, baby boom, counterculture
- Animation HistoryWalt Disney, Mickey Mouse, Steamboat Willie, Looney Tunes, golden age
- postwar eraMarshall Plan, prosperity, reconstruction, Cold War, iron curtain
- Three StoogesLarry, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, stooge, eye poke
- Turkish RepublicAnkara, Treaty of Lausanne, Latin alphabet, secularism, secular state
- Sports Erasdead ball era, steroid era, pioneer era, segregation era
television erastreaming era
Period of internet-delivered media
digital age · radio era · social media age · silent film era · social media era
television, televise, televised, televising, televisions, tele, vision, visions, visual