Unseen Comprehension-72 Alim (Television)
Television.
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Television has become the most common and most widespread source of entertainment of the present world. A wide range of programmes of varied interest is telecast on numerous channels. Almost every middle class and even working class families have a television set today. Television programmes are not only entertaining; they can be highly educative too. For example, television as used for distance learning. Courses run by the Open University are shown on BTV . Several channels like the Discovery Channel and the National Geographic Channels telecast highly informative programmes. Watching TV , however, has become an addiction for many.
Satellite telecasting has added new dimensions to television but it has sometimes been branded as a cultural assault on the developing nations. The East is being exposed more and more to western music, entertainment and modes of life. As a result, younger people's tastes are gradually being influenced by them.
A major influence on American children's lives is the television show, they watch TV viewing statistics are staggering : 96% of Us homes have at least one television set, and children aged three to five watch an average of fifty hours of TV every week. By the time these kids graduate from high school, they will have spent more than 22,000 hours in front of the box but only 11,000 hours in school. Most research on the effects of TV on children centres round whether watching so much violence on TV makes them more aggressive. Many studies show that it does. Indeed TV watching influences children's learning style too.
Satellite telecasting has added new dimensions to television but it has sometimes been branded as a cultural assault on the developing nations. The East is being exposed more and more to western music, entertainment and modes of life. As a result, younger people's tastes are gradually being influenced by them.
A major influence on American children's lives is the television show, they watch TV viewing statistics are staggering : 96% of Us homes have at least one television set, and children aged three to five watch an average of fifty hours of TV every week. By the time these kids graduate from high school, they will have spent more than 22,000 hours in front of the box but only 11,000 hours in school. Most research on the effects of TV on children centres round whether watching so much violence on TV makes them more aggressive. Many studies show that it does. Indeed TV watching influences children's learning style too.
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