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When Cable TV Came to a Buddhist Kingdom (full documentary) | FRONTLINE/World
2026 · 10 min · English
When Bhutan legalized television in 1999, becoming the last country on Earth to do so, cable brought new anxieties about what an "electronic invasion" would do to a Buddhist kingdom that had stayed isolated for centuries. FRONTLINE/World's 2002 dispatch follows a cable operator and Bhutanese families adjusting to a screen that suddenly would not turn off.
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