The Television is a city improvement in Civilization: Call to Power.
Effect[]
Television provides a city with +5 gold per citizen, besieging the public with advertisements for useless, yet somehow extremely desirable products. The black screen of the unplugged television, with its distorted reflection of the viewer's face, demonstrates a poignant symbol for the strange power of TV.
Great Library entry[]
In 1939, at the New York World's Fair, RCA set up a special exhibit: a bulky radio box that showed pictures synched to the sound. By 1960, TV had broken the power of the motion picture industry. Beyond entertainment, TV brought images of the world into the living room. For example, on March 7, 1965 scenes from Selma, Alabama showed police assaulting the civil rights marchers. Horrified by the images, Congress passed the Civil Rights Bill. The power of TV had been confirmed.
See also[]
- Television in other games
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