What ’s the fishy moment of live TV you ’ve ever seen ? That was the inquiry tweeted by a user on Xless than a week ago . And it ’s make some of the most screaming examples of weird broadcasting history that you may imagine .
There ’s that time a piteous TV host tried to stomp grapes to make wine-coloured , the time two one-time - school news newsman started talking tough , and style too many awkward segue to name . There are , of course , enough intimate innuendos and tidings flubs to fill a Good Book .
At the dawn of American TV broadcastingin the 1940s , all TV was live . That ’s one of the reason so few of the earliest shows survive . If you wanted to bear on a alive broadcast , you ’d have to literally film a TV monitor lizard using a technology called thekinescope .
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evidently , we ’ve come quite a long way since the forties but it ’s kind of amusing that so many of the clips being shared today work in much the same manner . They ’re recorded on our phones directly from idiot box screens before they ultimately go viral by getting pass around on societal medium land site like Facebook , X , and Instagram .
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