TV
Television is one of the biggest infotainment platforms across the world. The small screen or the idiot box as it was popularly called in the 90s has now become an important source of providing both entertainment and information to the world. Importantly, after the advent of information technology and digital media, the role of television has increased manifold.
Apart from hi-tech mobile phones and computers, the television industry has also revolutionized with television makers bringing both internet and OTT to the small screen ensuring that every household continues to own a set of televisions and thus its popularity can never diminish.
The United Nations General Assembly recognised the significance of television in the lives of the people and the impact it was making worldwide and hence in 1996 declared that November 21 would be celebrated as World Television Day. The UN officials held a World Television Forum discussing various aspects of the new system. And eventually after that, the UN recognised television as the brand ambassador of the entertainment world and a symbol of globalisation and communication educating, entertaining, influencing, and informing decisions and opinions of the people.
The first electronic television was invented by 21-year-old inventor Philo Taylor Farnsworth in 1927. Until he was 14 years old, he lived without electricity at his home but when he went to high school he began to think of developing a system that could capture the moving pictures in some way using radio waves so that those moving images could be sent to devices from where other people could see them from their homes.
At that time when Philo succeeded in transmitting a dollar sign through television no one thought that it would become such a big invention and an integral part of everyone’s life.
