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Entertainment > TV Genres & Trends The history and evolution of television: The 1960s and 1970s

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Unlike today's citizens, television viewers of the 1960s and the 1970s were just that, television viewers. Television in 1960s, proving the years of its strongest growth and popularity, had a new show that intrigued a new group of audiences who never before had owned a television set, tuned in to the show "Gun Smoke" . Audience share figures regularly exceeded 50% for many of the most popular entries in prime time. Television was not only an entertainment device but also an informational outburst, breaking new ground in presidential campaigning between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy on ...

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