Before the days of cell phones, video games and the internet, TV was often to be referred to as “The Great American Babysitter.” Parents from the 1950′s to the ’70′s, were well aware that siblings and high-school babysitters didn’t really watch the kids. As soon as the parents in a home would leave, the sitter would turn the TV on, plant the kids in front of it and go talk on the phone all night to friends. (If they had satellite TV back then, the sitter probably would have ignored the phone and joined the kids in the living room!)

Obviously, no one wants their child stuck in front of the TV for too long, but there is a sense of security in the child-friendly, viewing experience available on satellite TV. A Disney