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ironborealis · 7 months

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What kinda kills me is that living Alastor would definitely have known what a television was -- the technology is taking great newsworthy leaps during the late 1920s, and more importantly broadcast television today still relies on radio signals to transmit. Television merely became mainstream media after Alastor's death and eventually overtook radio in popularity.

The programming genres between the two were similar to each other. News, dramas, comedies, soaps, talk shows, politics, religion, game shows etc.

What sets modern television apart from what Alastor knows of radio is that TV is now reliant on 24/7 programming (24/7 radio was a rarity when Alastor was alive), the rise of cable/satellite/streaming television, and the death of long format music television...

Which considering the first video played on MTV was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles, the inverted version of which becomes the title of the 2nd episode...w

#hazbin hotel meta #alastor hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel vox #look i just think it would be hilarious Alastor is incensed that the Hell equivalent of MTV no longer plays music #and that's why he refuses to work with Vox #those two used to share a common originating technology #but maybe to Alastor it's Vox who left first #Chasing new broadcast technology that is going to continue to diminish Alastor's influence

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