55 Million People Couldn't Watch TV

Television during the 1950's were very expensive and their audience was generally affluent.

At the beginning during 1949, Tv's were priced to $500 to $600 per set.

Many poor families did not have access to televisions when they first came out since they were this expensive.

Lot of those who were wealthy easily attained a TV and this caused televised programs to create shows catered to them.

As time went by to 1953, televisions became priced to $200 to $300 and this caused more people to buy these TV sets.

Therefore, catering to middle class families more than those who were wealthy raised more money coming in.

At the start of the decade of the 50's, there were 3 million TV owners and by the end of it, there were 55 million who watched from home.

I would say it was a good choice to lower the price of televisions as they got more revenue and more people to tune into these stations.

The invention of this helped people in this era shape what people thought what was a perfect society should be.

I also have to mention that they generally included a white father, mother, and their children.

At this time, there was only three stations they broadcasted such as the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), and the American Broadcasting Company (ABC).

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