The following article is from the book Uncle John'...  ...the book Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Tunes Into TV . What kept TV alive through its birth and early decades of life? Beer and cigarette commercials.B...  ...4500, enough to buy a few very large flat screen *strong cl...

Before cable TV took off, there were three big broadcast TV networks: ABC, NBC, and CBS. But back in the earl...  ...ment had no budget, no rules, no tradition of how TV was done, and therefore everything they did was e...  ...oped and produced a variety of shows ranging fro...