THE TELEVISION REVOLUTION written by Arielle Antonio infographics by Vania Ho
In elementary school, the last bell signified three things for me: a trip to Wendy’s for a Junior Bacon Cheeseburger, the next episode of “DragonBall Z” on Toonami and “Rugrats” on Nickelodeon. As soon as I was home, I went straight to the back room of my grandparents’ house and sat glued to the little television set for hours. If I anticipated missing an episode, I turned to my handy-dandy VCR to time a recording. It was the 1990s. There were very few options for ways of watching your favorite shows. Either you were able to watch them on time or you struggled with finicky, unreliable VCRs. Often I came home to find that the darn thing had only recorded half of the show I wanted to see. SCAN MAGAZINE // FALL 2014