TV Revolution

The first TV revolution is considered to be an explosion of access. The second revolution will be connected with the huge raise in choice. By 2013, the half of televisions of the world will get an opportunity to receive digital signals. They will get access to many more channels.

And as the raise in choice is concerned, it causes such consequence as getting more freedom by bureaucrats all over the world who have been in charge of programming directly or strictly regulated the few existing stations. According to the survey that was held in 97 countries, the state run almost 60 percent of the top five television stations in each country. And only 32 percent belonged to small family groupings.

The growing number of channels in the near future will do their best to give the audience what it wants. Luckily, people’s preferences are quite similar everywhere. Sports, reality shows and soap operas are leading ones. The famous Brazilian Rede Globo network has produced a great number of soaps. And 80 million people watched some of them. The characters of modern soap operas are the people with close to real life characteristics. Researchers at the Inter-American Development Bank claimed that the effect of being in the region of broadcasting of Globo on a woman’s fertility is the same as if the women got two additional years of education. Therefore, women started to have fewer children and divorce rates went up.

If the problem of fertility is concerned, television has a great influence on fertility also in rural India. The soaps showed images of women who were able to make decisions connected with childbirth and a range of household activities. Jensen and Oster assert that the introduction of cable or satellite services in a village causes higher school enrollment rates and increase in female autonomy.

Indeed, television influences the life of a human in various spheres. Of course, it is a source of education. The researchers of a World Bank who made a survey of young people in shantytowns of Fortaleza in Brazil proved that the consumption of drugs or number of early pregnancies of kids who watch television out of school is much less in comparison with their peers.

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