LOL!! That makes me positively ancient since there was no tv when I was little!!
We relied on radio and publications - newspapers, magazines - and Foxtone newsreels at the movie theater for information.
Television sets were not generally in homes until the 1950's.
In 1947, I was a contestant representing Florida in the National Spelling Bee - the very first time it was televised - but no one in my family could watch it! Few Americans had sets yet.
When I won the state contest in Jacksonville, however, my grandparents in South Carolina had listened to the contest on the radio.