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This was a discussion way back in the senior high school years or early freshman/sophmore college years way back when... if far away galaxies could pick up television transmissions from earth, what would they be watching. Given that this was around 25 years ago when said discussions were being discussed, far away galaxies would be seeing late 1940's early 1950's television, possibly I Love Lucy and the ilk.
NOW!!!
25 years later, scientists and theorist alike are still having this discussion which would move the TV schedule up by 25 years or so. So far away galaxies would be seeing American TV around the mid Eighties.
StrangeMaps answers the question so way better than LA*SURFPUNK just did:
The first tv images of World War II are about to hit Aldebaran star system, 65 light years [ly] away. If there’s anybody out there alive and with eyes to see it, the barrage of actual and dramatised footage of WW2 will keep them shocked and/or entertained for decades to come. Which is just as well, for they’ll have to wait quite a few years to catch the first episodes of such seminal series as The Twilight Zone and Bonanza (both 1959), just about now hitting the (putative) extraterrestrial biological entities of the Mu Arae area (appr. 50 ly). The Cosby Show, Miami Vice and Night Court (all 1984) should be all the rage on Fomalhaut (25 ly). Meanwhile, the sentient, tv-watching creatures near Alpha Centauri (4.4 ly), our closest extrasolar star, are just recovering from the infamous “wardrobe malfunction” during Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake’s halftime show during the 2004 Superbowl.
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