The worldâs first television stations first started appearing in America in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The first mechanical TV station was called W3XK and was created by Charles Francis Jenkins (one of the inventors of the mechanical television). That TV station aired its first broadcast on July 2, 1928.
PewDiePieâs net worth comes mostly from his stratospherically popular YouTube Channel. The star has earned an estimated $155 million since 2010. Since heâs in a 45% tax bracket, about half of that goes to PewDiePieâs net worth. Numbers are current as of 12/13/16.
The following year he got the Web Star: Gaming award in the Teen Choice Awards, and in 2015 he won the Best Gaming Channel award at the 5th Streamy Awards. PewDiePie found a place in the Guinness World Records for having the most number of subscribers on YouTube (47,419,927 as of August 23, 2016). He was crowned with that accolade since 2013 and consistently held on to it until 2016 thanks to his growing legion of subscribers.