Has Our TV Been Replaced Yet?   

Most of us have a particularly iconic TV or Television Show memory. In many cases it will be from very early on in our lives when we watched a lot of TV anyway, but the real definition of a TV memory is something we watched that we will remember for the rest of our lives because of how it changed the world, even if only subtly, and afterwards everyone asked you “where were you when you heard/saw…”. You can probably think of yours right now, and there are some obvious examples. 

It seems to many of us that the Internet has now outstripped the television as our source for memories that will never leave us. However, for that immediate, live and unprompted feel, there are still and probably always will be occasions when the TV is uniquely positioned to give us those memories. When a sporting occasion presents an unbelievable moment, or when a President is elected, the TV will usually be where most of us find out – and that doesn’t seem set to change.

For some it will be the assassination of John F Kennedy, and for others it will be the first Moon Landing. Moving it forward to another generation, a lot of people will consider the fall of the Berlin Wall to be their iconic TV memory. But now, it seems that the Internet is the place to find those iconic memories. When the Twin Towers were struck on September the 11^th 2001, many people first heard about it via the Internet. When Michael Jackson passed away on June the 25^th 2009, a huge number of people heard about it on Twitter.