World Television Day Observed On 21 November

Highlights:

• Every year on November 21, World Television Day is observed.
• The day serves as a reminder of the importance of visual media in moulding public opinion and affecting global politics.
• For many years, television has played an important part in people's lives.
• It is a media that transmits moving pictures in two or three dimensions as well as sound and provides entertainment, education, news, politics, and gossip, among other things.
• The United Nations hosted the inaugural World Television Forum on November 21 and 22, 1996.
• This day provides a forum for the media to debate the role of television in conveying information and how it fits into a changing world. It is by far the most popular way to watch videos.
• The organisation arranged a summit of all major media leaders on the 21st and 22nd of November 1996, under the auspices of the United Nations, to debate the rising importance of television in today's changing world and to determine how they may improve their mutual collaboration.