Television, for everyone, is a medium of knowledge, entertainment or sometimes time-passing source. If we think of its existence in one's house, it has a very vital role to play for everyone residing in the home, i.e., children, adults, parents, elders, and housewives, etc. It is a very necessary household item in today's life.
For children it is a medium of entertainment and taking look of new things, which they otherwise could not be able to see actually. They usually like to see the programs, which includes cartoons, films, and sometimes animals, etc. Youngsters or adults use it as a medium of taking knowledge of current events like politics, national and international affairs, entertainment, and source of information for their studies and career. Elders use it for their time-pass and making themselves aware of the outer world. Likewise it is very useful for housewives or non-working women who have to spend a lot of their daily time in their houses, for their time-pass and entertainment.
It is generally seen that children and housewives have their pet programs to see on the television like some particular serials coming daily, weekly or some time some feature film they like. At the same time elders and the youngsters also have their pet programs to see. In some houses there is always a quarrel about watching the program of their interest, for, the TV set usually is single and there are many persons who want different things to watch at the same time (And some manufacturing companies have provided a solution to this by providing TV sets that have multiple screens and different people can watch different things at the same time!).
Children say that they have to watch their channel like cartoons, and housewives say they have to see their serials! While elders say that the only channel can be watched is the news channel! And this obviously makes a lot of disturbance in the house. To avoid these types of disturbances in the houses people generally make a agreement among the members of the family that they can divide the time of watching the television among all the family members, who interested to see the television. The time is allotted to every person and between that time the control of the television will be in the hands of the person who was allotted that time and all have to see his interest's channel or leave the room, and so on.
It is observed that when the television is introduced in the market, i.e., around its first phases, a very few people have this instrument in their houses. It was like one television in about 25 or 30 houses. Those who do not have television in their houses generally went to see some particular programs on the television in the house of those who have this instrument in their house. In villages, some people offer tea or some snacks while people come to their houses for watching the television in lieu of guest honor. On the other hand some persons get angry if someone came to their house for watching the television. But now days it is a common thing in most of the houses and there is no need to go to the houses of other people merely for watching the programs. Rather some people have more than one television in their houses, like if someone has double storied house they might have one television on every floor and in some case it is seen that every room has its own television like in hotel rooms!
At last one must keep in mind that the television should be used for the source of knowledge and entertainment and at no cost for the cause of any type of disturbance in the family. And if a family has one television set in their house and the members to watch it are more, then it should be used by adjustments and making it beneficial rather than making it a cause of misunderstanding between the family members. All the inventions of science are somehow intended for the welfare but they due to their wrong use become source of worry and sorrow for the users and people around!