-British show Top Gear is the most watched television show with an estimated 350 million weekly viewers in 170 countries.

- One of the first original television programs in America was “The Television Ghost,” (1931) which featured an actor dressed as dead people telling the stories of their murders.

- After President Kennedy’s death in 1963, the television networks aired four days of commercial-free coverage of his funeral, burial, and other proceedings, costing them about $100 million in lost advertising revenue. About 93% of American homes watched some coverage.