We present television.

Kids with remotes aren't watching television, they are watching the television (the physical machine) playing 'television', putting it through its paces.

The people making television are not programming our TV sets or their evening schedules; they are programming us.

Kids with remotes aren't watching television, they are watching the television (the physical machine) playing 'television', putting it through its paces.

(Indeed, it has been calculated that the energy required to power all the televisions and computers in America that are currently in sleep mode equals the output of an entire average-size power plant.)