World Television Day - November 21

World Television Day - November 21

Television, or TV for short, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with or without accompanying sound.
Do you ever stop to think about your television? Well, there is a special day to do this. World Television Day started on November 21, 1998.  The United Nations General  Assembly  decided  there should  be  a day to commemorate one of the most revolutionary inventions ever. This date is when the first World Television Forum was held, in 1996. The purpose of this day is to encourage countries to exchange
TV programmes  that  focus on peace and culture. The UN hopes to encourage greater international understanding. The UN also believes that making high quality television shows leads to a well-informed and better-educated public. It also hopes to promote freedom, equal rights and democracy. Television can focus everybody’s attention on the most important issues, including economic and social developments.

Television is one of today’s most powerful communications media which can enhance information exchange as well as mutual understanding between different cultures. Television  is one of the most influential forms of media  in history. We grow up with  it.  Babies learn language from it.  It shapes our ideas and is a
window on the whole world. Television sets first started appearing  in people’s homes in the 1930s. There was only one channel back then and it was in black and white.  Today, we have multi-channel TVs that broadcast programmes live all over the world. We watch wars, floods, presidential inaugurations and sports finals as they happen.  Not everything about TV is good.  Many people blame it for obesity in children,  a  breakdown in family communication and an obsession with celebrity. No one knows what the future of television will be. Maybe computers will replace them.