Television is a spectacular source to learn new information and teach viewers about what is going on in the world, whether it be from the news or a lesson learned from a popular show. Television educates the world with its content. Could you imagine a world without a television sitting in the living room? Believe it or not, there was once a time where nobody even knew what television was and it became a brand new, exciting technology and a foreign term that was not a household name like it is now. The world’s first television stations in America began in the late 1920s. Charles Francis Jenkins created the first station titled W3XK, airing its broadcast in 1928. The same television that was a fancy and advanced technology then turned into a critical form of communication and became widely popular among Americans- to the point where every living room included the illuminating box of light and color. Once the 1970s era rocked the United States, television stations boomed and along with that came shows such as The Brady Bunch, Happy Days, Charlie’s Angels, Little House on the Prairie, and many more that accumulated a massive audience and became extremely popular within homes. Inside all of these shows surfaced the feelings of innocence, nostalgia, and everyday life while focusing on many social issues, and family relations.

Television in the 70s was a tumultuous era that paved way for how television is seen in this day and age. Television had a profound and wide-ranging impact on American society and culture. It influenced the way that people think about such important social issues as race, gender, and class. Television helped to spread American culture around the world especially within the start up shows in the 70s. Television is a medium that improves the world, triggers imagination, raises curiosity, encourages education and gathers millions around common interests. Time and people have changed due to the impact that television has brought about.

The 70’s proved to the world that it is okay to broadcast scenes on television that portrayed real life whether they were good or bad. For example, Charlie’s Angels gave way to three powerful women, (which was big especially back then concerning women’s rights) and The Brady Bunch was a show about a family and showed how life worked within that. There were so many other shows throughout the 70s that held meaning to Americans all over. To this day, people young or old could recite staple shows from the 70s because that’s how much power they held.