# What would Jesus watch on His TV and listen to on His radio? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 20, 2006, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-jesus-watch-on-his-tv-and-listen-to-on-his-radio/349120 "2006-03-20T13:05:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-jesus-watch-on-his-tv-and-listen-to-on-his-radio/349120/1 "2006-03-20T13:05:18Z")
If we turn on a TV (lets stick with the older analog ones) to a channel that has no broadcast we get snow (changing black and white dots), also if we tune our radio to a frequency where there is no station we get static. Ok lets go back 2000 years, before the airwaves were cluttered by all the EM interference. Jesus, having some free time, decides to make a TV and radio, even though the 1st broadcast won’t appear for 1900 years. He turns it on (after solving the whole power issue), what does He see or hear? Will it be the snow and static we do today, or will it be just blank and silent? ---
**Author:** ![mks57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@mks57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mks57)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-jesus-watch-on-his-tv-and-listen-to-on-his-radio/349120/2 "2006-03-20T13:15:37Z")
Noise and static. There is a natural “noise floor”. Even without artificial sources, there is thermal noise. ---
**Author:** ![Stentor\_2.5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@Stentor\_2.5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stentor_2.5)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-jesus-watch-on-his-tv-and-listen-to-on-his-radio/349120/3 "2006-03-20T13:51:04Z")
Pat Robertson ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-jesus-watch-on-his-tv-and-listen-to-on-his-radio/349120/4 "2006-03-20T14:02:08Z")
This Old House. New Yankee Workshop. ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-jesus-watch-on-his-tv-and-listen-to-on-his-radio/349120/5 "2006-03-20T14:03:55Z")
If Jesus knew how often his name would pop up in the small hours on tv, he would cringe and then slap Benny Hinn on the forehead…to kill him not cure him. Surely jesus would be disgusted by the amount of people claiming they need money in his name? I’m disgusted for him and I don’t even believe in him! ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-jesus-watch-on-his-tv-and-listen-to-on-his-radio/349120/6 "2006-03-20T14:04:02Z")
Okay, this got me to thinking: What if Jesus’ TV or radio picked up signals from a civlization which is now dead? Would we still be able to detect those signals floating around in space, or is it something like once it’s sent, you better catch it, or that’s it? ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-jesus-watch-on-his-tv-and-listen-to-on-his-radio/349120/7 "2006-03-20T14:27:49Z")
Jesus wouldn’t have any better luck than we have had trying to pick up distant radio waves from outer space. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-jesus-watch-on-his-tv-and-listen-to-on-his-radio/349120/8 "2006-03-20T15:32:52Z")
He’d hear that French woman on _Lost._ ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-jesus-watch-on-his-tv-and-listen-to-on-his-radio/349120/9 "2006-03-20T17:21:05Z")
\ Moved to IMHO. \ ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-jesus-watch-on-his-tv-and-listen-to-on-his-radio/349120/10 "2006-03-20T17:49:10Z")
I Love Lucy ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-jesus-watch-on-his-tv-and-listen-to-on-his-radio/349120/11 "2006-03-20T17:50:30Z")
Highway to Heaven ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-jesus-watch-on-his-tv-and-listen-to-on-his-radio/349120/12 "2006-03-20T18:44:24Z")
He’d wonder where the Greeks got their weird accent from, why the Romans were speaking such incredibly-bad Latin, and where all the Aramaic speakers went. And why there were so many Germans on TV all the time. ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-jesus-watch-on-his-tv-and-listen-to-on-his-radio/349120/13 "2006-03-20T23:37:47Z")
Jesus don’t NEED no TV or radios. He can pick up anything in the electromagnetic spectrum directly. 🙂 And, yeah, in that time, he’d pick up static, basically.