Manufacturers saw the possibilities for mass sales of domestic sets as soon as the price could be reduced and given the division and relation between the public and private domains fundamental to modernity centralised broadcasting to a dispersed domestic audience was clearly the most adequate organisation of the medium As workingclass people achieved improved standards of living and entered consumer society from about the 1920s onwards the dreams of the home as a fully equipped centre for entertainment and diverse cultural experiences became realisable for the majority of inhabitants of Western nationstates And all of this is now also happening on a global scale