Sentence examples for communal televisions from inspiring English sources

JINAN, China -- In 1980, hundreds of millions of Chinese people gathered around communal televisions set up in schools and on basketball courts, mesmerized by the trial of Mao Tse-tung's widow and members of the so-called Gang of Four who had led the nation's catastrophic Cultural Revolution.

Some prisoners are sitting on the brown woollen sofas watching the communal television.

The inn has a small indoor pool, a coin-operated sauna, a game room and a communal television set.

Paradoxically, the league's mainstream presence (every week through the end of April) also points toward the increased splintering of any communal television audience.

These last eight episodes seem to be building into a cultural and highly communal television event that will stretch over two months with viewers anticipating, watching, discussing and sharing.

She revealed: "I was in hospital at the time and I remember me and three old ladies gathered around the communal television in our ward, and we watched him sing.

But that did not mean Ms. Woodruff was going to let her mother sit glassy-eyed in a nursing home lounge, her wheelchair parked in front of the communal television, with "nobody looking out for her soul".

(It is no coincidence that during the Third Reich, communal television viewing in Fernsehstuben public "television parlours", was encouraged: private tastes and ideas are dangerous to a certain kind of regime).

Between Super Bowl XLVI and the Olympics opening ceremony, 2012 has been a big year for communal television viewing.

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At least Sunday night gives you the chance to meld your social life with some communal TV watching (television the glue that holds society together etc etc).