Swasti Nourmawati

The Advantages of Watching Television

From very long time ago, people had already known how to transform information in many different ways but only when the first television program was broadcasted, a new age had begun, the age of image transformation. Television nowadays has been very popular, and almost every family all over the world has the access to it. By sitting comfort and nicely at home, watching TV, you can get a whole look all over the world. Almost every house or even every room has at least one television. Television gives us many channels or programs that we can choose to watch everyday. We can get a lot of benefits by watching television. There are three programs from television which have many advantages.

First, television has the advertisement programs. People can know a new product on the market through the advertisement. It provides the function of a new product for the people who want to buy it, and people can make the decision about whether to buy the product or not. Of Course, television also becomes an important role for the company. Advertisements always use different ways to introduce their product in order to attract people to buy it. The company can use the advertisement in the television to increase their product’s selling.

Second, another program which has a lot of advantages is the news program. Television provides the news everyday, and people know what happens all over the world. For example, a big accident or war which does not happen in your neighborhood or in your country, will be introduced it in very detail. We can know the latest information without looking or coming directly to the place. People can have the knowledge of what is happening, and have a reaction. Now the news or information is faster and easier to know.

And the third, the most watched program by the people is the entertaining programs. Television is also a kind of relaxation, for instance, movies or films, cartoons, comedies, or even the soap operas are shown by the television stations, which entertain people in their leisure time. We can watch those programs with the whole family. Moreover, watching television is a kind of activity for which you don’t have to move much, so you will not loose a lot of energy. In addition, if we want to travel but do not have enough money, we can enjoy traveling in the TV (for example watching the discovery channel or national geography channel). Even all those programs can make you forget your job or even your problems for a while.

From those explaining above, we can conclude that watching television does give us many advantages which are very considerable. We can get the information about things or new products that are introduced in the advertisement; we can know the latest news from all over the world from the news program, and even just for relaxation by watching the movies. As we know now, watching television is not a waste of time.