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To: combjelly who wrote (419794)	9/25/2008 4:33:26 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573221

Sure the TV had been invented, but no one had one. They had a resolution of about 100 lines, produced fairly few frames per second, where massively expensive, and where not marketed to consumers. They where not a way that an American president could have effectively communicated to the American people. It would have been like the president trying to get his message out to the public on the Internet (at the time ARPANET) in '69 or '70, or by using a web page in 1992. Even the broadcast of the Olympic ceremonies in 1936 was watched by only about 150,000 people, and only that many because the German government set up television viewing rooms around Berlin, not because almost anyone actually owned a TV.