World Television Day 2022, History, significance and more
World Television Day 2022, History, significance and more
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World Television Day is yearly celebrated on 21st November globally.. This day honours how crucial a part television has played and has continued to play in influencing the technological advancement of our society.

Since television is now acknowledged by the UN as having a greater influence on decision-making and serving as an ambassador for the entertainment industry, the event has gained UN recognition.

Our decisions and beliefs are influenced by television, which serves as a symbol of communication and globalisation. Since its inception, television has played a significant role in forming our cultures and it continues to do so today, thus it deserves respect.

On September 7th, 1927, the first successful demonstration of electronic television took place in San Francisco. Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a 21-year-old inventor who had lived in a home without electricity until he was 14 years old, created the technology. Farnsworth had started to imagine a system that could record moving images in a format that could be coded onto radio waves and then turned back into a picture on a screen while he was still in high school. 16 years prior to Farnsworth's initial achievement, Boris Rosing did some rudimentary tests in the transmission of images in Russia. However, Farnsworth's innovation, which used an electron beam to scan images, is the origin of contemporary television.

RCA, which controlled the American radio industry with its two NBC networks, contributed $50 million to the advancement of electronic television. The company's president, David Sarnoff, hired scientist Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, a Russian-born individual who had taken part in Rosing's studies, to lead the initiative. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered a speech at the New York World's Fair opening in 1939, making him the first head of state to do so. A licence to use Farnsworth's television patents was purchased by RCA later that year.

By 1949, Americans could see shows like The Texaco Star Theater (1948), featuring Milton Berle, or the kids' show Howdy Doody if they were within the broadcast range of the country's expanding number of television stations (1947). Television programming started to veer away from radio forms between 1953 and 1955. Sylvester Weaver, president of NBC television, created the "spectacular," of which Peter Pan (1955), starring Mary Martin and drawing 60 million viewers, is a noteworthy example. Later, a number of developments influenced how we view television today, such as the introduction of colour TVs. Today, in the 21st century, television is a commonplace in most of the world.

The first World Television Forum was organised by the UN on November 21 and 22, 1996. Here, top media professionals gathered to talk about the growing importance of television in a world that is changing quickly and to think about ways to improve their mutual cooperation. UN officials understood that television had the power to draw attention to conflicts, increase public awareness of dangers to peace and security, and focus attention more sharply on social and economic issues. The UN General Assembly voted to designate November 21 as World Television Day as a result of this occurrence, not to commemorate the television set per se but to honour it as a symbol of communication and globalisation in the modern world.

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