Tropes/Germans Love David Hasselhoff/Intenolia

Intenolia is one of the major suppliers of this trope.

General

 * Television in general. Intenolians watch 12 hours of TV a day, in part due to a highly successful marketing campaign by electronics manufacturer Intech (itself a subsidiary of state-owned telecoms provider Intelecom) during the aftermath of WWII, which touted the television as a "combination cinema, radio, and magazine". Even with the rise of the internet, TV reigns supreme, in part due to protectionist trade laws that effectively prohibit foreign streaming companies like Netflix, DisneyPlus, and PrimeVideo from operating in Intenolia unless they make their services available for free.
 * While not as popular as television, the average Intenolian will spend up to 10 hours online. Like with television, this is partly due to massive Intelecom/Compuserve and TELUS/UUNET-Pipex advertising campaigns during the early-90s leaving an impression that a personal computer (hooked up to the local ISPs: there are only three phone companies (Intelecom, Shaw, and TELUS), and these three operate all the ISPs, as there were no cable companies around due to old "anti-pay-TV" laws originating from a Moral Panic over early "microwave PPV" subscription methods in the 70s, though more recently smaller companies like TekSavvy have started offering "last-mile" ISP service, but as resellers to the Big 3 telecoms) was a technological marvel surpassing fire or sliced bread.