Culture Glue: How Broadcast TV Bound Us Together in a Way Cable and YouTube Never Can

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Gilligan's Island, Star Trek, Welcome Back Kotter and other broadcast TV classics bound us together as a culture in a way that cable TV and streaming services like YouTube, Apple TV, Netflix, Hulu, and the rest, never can. It's not just the content of these old shows, but the fact that we all watched them at the same night, at the same time.

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