This one is totally eluding me, and hasn't garnered any answers on the sites I've tried. I don't hang on any general sf sites or forums any more.

Short story, almost sure it's Bradbury. (Googling Bradbury+television brings up a thousand references to "The
Pedestrian," which isn't the one I'm looking for.)

A miner comes into town after several months at his dig, to find that television as we know it has been wiped out by some kind of cosmic-ray effect; it just doesn't work any more. It's forcing people to actually talk and sit on their front porches in the evening and other awful things; it's dangerous to even mention TV or anything that was on it.

ID?

sounds like a twilight zone episode to me just shooting from the hip tho

imagine if everyone's iphones/computers quit working....... face to face contact? there'd be some very lost souls

Bingo. Thank you. Have one on me.

I have no idea why this story was so damned difficult to locate, other than that it's overshadowed by "The Pedestrian."