World Television Day
World Television day is observed on 21 November to highlight the daily value of television that it plays in communication and globalization. In 1996, the United Nations general assembly declared November 21 World Television Day. The UN recognized television as having an increased impact on decision making as well as being an ambassador for the entertainment industry. Television is a symbol of communication and globalization that educates, informs, entertains and influences our decisions and opinions.
On November 21 & 22 in 1996, the United Nations held the first World Television Forum. Here, leading media figures met to discuss the growing significance of television in the rapidly changing world and consider how they might enhance their mutual cooperation.
Due to COVID-19 pandemic television viewership increases. Social distancing and work from home have changed life, people now spend time together with their families, take food together, watch their favorite movies or shows together. Nowadays, TV has taken a centre stage at homes for family bonding and entertainment.
Television continues to be the single largest source of video consumption. Though screen sizes have changed, and people create, post, stream and consume content on different platforms, the number of households with television sets around the world continues to rise. The interaction between emerging and traditional forms of broadcast creates opportunities to raise awareness about the important issues facing our communities and our planet.
History
In 1927, a 21 year old invented by the name of Philo Taylor Farnsworth invented the world’s first electronic television. He lived in a home without electricity until he was 14 year old. In high school, he began to think of a system that could capture moving pictures, change them into a code, and then move those images with radio waves to different devices. He was years ahead of the mechanical television system as his structure captured moving images using a beam of electrons.
Farnsworth later famously transmitted the image of a dollar sign using television after a fellow inventor asked “When are we going to see some dollars from this thing?” Neither of them knew the television would become the emblem for an international day promoting the spread of global information.
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