Questions tagged [television]
A telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome (black-and-white) or colored, with or without accompanying sound.
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Did more people watch Infowars than CNN?
At 2:13 in the HBO documentary "The Truth vs Alex Jones" (2024), attorney Mark Bankston claims that at the height of its success, "more people watched Infowars at any given hour than ...
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Did Rossiya 24 show an advertisement for Russian women to marry Chinese men?
A clip floating on various subreddits purports to show that:
Russian State TV now shows advertising for Russian Women to marry Chinese Men. Promising them a better life...
The clip seems to show a ...
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Did two billion people watch the wedding of Catherine Middleton and Prince William?
The Sunday Times just now tweeted:
Kate astonished everyone in royal circles with how she handled their wedding in April 2011, watched by an estimated global audience of two billion.
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Have any versions of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" had to remove the Ask the Audience lifeline due to the audience purposely voting wrong?
The Russian version of "Who wants to be a Millionaire?" had to scrap the "ask audience lifeline as the audience would intentionally give the wrong answer.
This image can be found (for ...
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Did Cops have an episode in which a woman's baby was taken from her for "lying to the police"?
Mara “Get Rid of the Nazis” Wilson via Twitter (19k likes; 2k retweets), and posted on Reddit's r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut (20.1k likes)
I couldn't immediately verify this claim; I didn't find a link in the ...
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Is this metric system video, apparently taken from Fox news, a deep fake?
This video apparently shows Fox News saying the metric system is bad and giving arguments on why the current US customary system is better.
I do not come from the USA and have never watched Fox News, ...
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Did Bear Grylls see Rob Hall's body on Everest?
In an interview with Vanity Fair, Bear Grylls said:
I was on Everest a couple of years after Rob died up there. I actually saw Rob up there, when we climbed it, pretty well perfectly preserved.
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Mythbusters tested a material that was so explosive they didn't release the episode and contacted DARPA
I have encountered a picture on 9gag, one of "weird facts" ones, that stated following:
Mythbusters once investigated the explosive properties of an easily available material. It was so explosive ...
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Was there ever a cable channel called The Puppy Channel which broadcast for three years?
Ages ago, I heard about something called "The Puppy Channel" - a channel in the United States that broadcast nothing but puppies.
On Reddit's TIL (Today I Learned), there's a Reddit post, ...
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Was National Geographic just filming a snake attack a child and not helping?
The picture has become somewhat of a meme (NSFW)
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Did John Safran get a fatwa placed on Australian television host Rove McManus?
John Michael Safran... is an Australian radio personality, satirist, documentary maker and author, known for combining humour with religious, political and ethnic issues... Safran is known for his ...
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Is Russian TV airing a "hunger games" like reality series where contestants can rape, kill or be killed?
A popular Youtube channel ScreenJunkies recently launched a spinoff called ScreenJunkies News. (this is to show notability)
On a recent episode titled "Real Life Hunger Games Coming To TV", the host ...
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Is this claim about Turkey's restriction on Zorok TV accurate?
Kurdish children's channel Zarok TV to be allowed back on air in
Turkey only if 40% of the shows are promoting Turkish culture and
language.
https://twitter.com/DrPartizan_/status/...
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Did ABC News briefly report that Hillary Clinton had died in the hospital, and did ABC confirm it on the phone with Infowars?
I'm obviously not asking whether the story itself is correct, I'm asking whether ABC News briefly reported it or whether it's a series of hoaxes.
I saw this alleged screenshot on Reddit just now. It ...
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Is Elvis the individual who has saved the US healthcare industry the most money in the last 100 years?
Doing the rounds again is this meme regarding Elvis:
Recently, someone asked the question: “Who is the one individual that has helped save the most money in the US healthcare industry in the last ...
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Are the 'Family Feud' surveys systematically fake?
Are the surveys in the gameshow 'Family Feud' (and its many international derivatives) systematically fake?
When I used to watch the British version, 'Family Fortunes', I couldn't imagine that they'd ...
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Does "Top Gear" have 350 million viewers worldwide?
I have often seen figures claiming that Top Gear’s estimated worldwide audience is 350 million (e.g here). I don't doubt that it's a popular show, but that seems a little high to me.
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Is there any benefit to leaving Animal Planet on when leaving a cat alone?
I recently discovered that some people put Animal Planet (or similar nature channel) on the TV when leaving a cat alone all day. I'd never heard of this before, but I found many mentions of it while ...
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Is everything staged on Discovery channel? [closed]
Sometime ago a question featured on travel.se about Mythbusters' duct tape island. The footage of the island came from a database and when the guys were running on a so called "deserted island" they ...
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Can a body be dissolved by a few liters or gallons of Hydrofluoric acid?
In the "Cat's in the Bag..." episode of Season 1 of "Breaking Bad," characters are shown with 4 gallon-jugs of Hydrofluoric Acid that they use to dissolve 2 adult corpses. Chemistry is a major plot ...
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Does Gallagher have a twin brother?
It has been widely reported that Leo Anthony Gallagher (the comedian who likes to smash watermelons with a large mallet) has a twin brother named Ron who tours the country and impersonates his brother....
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Do high refresh rates prevent motion blur on TVs?
Several TV options are available and most sellers tend to convince you that the higher frequency the TV is the better it is. For example this site says:
LCD TV manufacturers have tried doubling ...
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Do Germans love David Hasselhoff?
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From a BBC article:
David Hasselhoff, star of the hit 80s TV series Knight Rider, is
renowned in celebrity-obsessed circles for being Big In Germany; not
only as an actor, but as a ...
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Is there a legal video size limit for Super Bowl parties?
Slate claims:
A Baptist congregation in Indiana plans to cancel its Super Bowl party this weekend, after receiving a threatening letter from the National Football League. NFL officials say the ...
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CSI image resolution enhance: How real is it?
So I watched the following 1 minute long Youtube clip from CSI New York. In the clip, using what seems to be the recording from a standard bank camera, they zoom in at least 100, and see the image ...
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