World Television Day (21/11)

World Television Day, celebrated annually on November 21, was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in December 1996 (resolution № A/RES/51/205), to commemorate the date of the first World Television Forum at the UN in 1996.

The UN established this Day recognizing the increasing impact that television has on decision-making processes, drawing global attention to conflicts and threats to peace and security, as well as its potential role in focusing on other major issues, including economic and social issues. Television has been recognized as an important tool for influencing – orientation, direction and monitoring of public opinion. It is difficult to overestimate its impact and impact on world politics.

World Television Day is essentially dedicated to the philosophy that television brings to our lives, rather than to its technical aspects. In the modern world, television is a symbol of connection and globalization.

States were therefore encouraged to celebrate the day by sharing television programs on issues such as peace, security, economic and social development and increased cultural exchange.

Although the holiday itself began to be celebrated not so long ago, the history of television began about a century ago. And the first experiments using electron beams to transmit and receive images over certain distances were carried out in the early 1920s in the USA, Japan and the Soviet Union.

In 1933, an American engineer of Russian origin, Vladimir Zvorykin, managed to invent a cathode tube, which became the main part of the TV. Thanks to Zvorykin’s discovery, regular television programs began in Great Britain and Germany already in 1936, and — in the USA in 1941. However, it was only in the 50s of the 20th century that television broadcasting became widespread in Europe. In most developing countries, their own public and private television companies emerged even later, in the 60s — in the early 70s. Today there are probably no states left in the world that are not covered by television broadcasting.

The history of Russian television dates back to experimental broadcasts of television programs that were broadcast from Moscow already in the 30s of the 20th century using the small-frame mechanical television system. In 1932, the first transmission of a moving image took place. In 1937, the first television center was organized on Shabolovka. From 1938 it carried out experimental television broadcasting based on electronic systems, and from 1939 regular television broadcasting began. The first broadcast was a screening of a film about the opening of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). In the future, the active development of television in the Soviet Union was prevented by the Great Patriotic War. Two days before its end on May —7, 1945, the — television center on Shabolovka resumed broadcasting programs, and on December 15 of the same year it was the first in Europe to begin regular television broadcasting twice a week.

With the development of satellite television broadcasting, it has become possible to receive television programs from almost anywhere in the world.

In the modern world, despite the growing popularity of the Internet as a source of information and entertainment, especially among young people, television is still the largest source of content and represents a symbol of connection and globalization. It plays a huge role throughout the world, influencing, among other things, the formation of public opinion and the education of the younger generation.

Television of the United Nations itself, which began its work in 1947, constantly prepares reports on humanitarian crises around the world, makes documentaries about current issues of our time, such as human rights, peace and security, development, and broadcasts live from meetings of the General Assembly and Security Council.

Therefore, the UN invites all member states and representatives of the world's leading media to pay more attention to the information that is now broadcast from screens, giving preference to such programs that are devoted to education, education and promotion of universal and cultural values, tolerance, peace and expansion of cultural exchange.



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