History Of Netflix's Golden Age Of Television

A Glitch in the System Allow me to paint you a picture…. it’s a lazy Sunday afternoon, raindrops are pitter pattering on the windows, and Billy has nothing that he needs to do. So how does he spend all of his free time? Why, he pulls up Netflix and binge watches his favorite TV Show(s)/Movie(s) of course! Pretty normal, right? Now, would you think differently of Billy if he would be playing his favorite video game(s) on his computer for the same amount of time? Hopefully no, but in our society today, it seems that many people are thought of differently for playing video games in their free time while people binge watching Netflix is “normal.” People who avidly play video games in their free time are all too often automatically dubbed a “nerd,”
Televisions were first commercialized in 1949, and can be found in almost every home to this day. However, television’s “Golden Age” was between the years in 1953-55 when programming started branching away from radio formats, and networks like NBC, ABC, and CBS started becoming major players in television. It was also during this time that shows like Today, The Tonight Show, The Mickey Mouse Club, and many other shows became popular. Ever since the “Golden Age of Television”, television itself has grown immensely, with color broadcasting emerging in 1964, public broadcasting (PBS) in 1967, video cassettes in 1980, and many more advancements having been developed or being developed.
Both medias are immensely popular today, both with their own agenda of benefits and/or harmful effects. I believe that the social stigma from video games is generated from it being a relatively new media, something new and unknown to a lot of people. Now, that’s not to say that we as a society haven’t become better about the social gap, we most certainly have. But, there is still a ways to go until we can regard video games with the same respect as television, and I personally cannot wait for that day to