NEWS DESK
ISLAMABAD: Today on Monday, November 21, 2022, World Television Day is marked in Pakistan and around the globe, by highlighting the importance of television as an important scientific invention for humans.
Television has created an impact on the decision-making process of every sphere of life and also raised awareness, about important issues globally and locally.
The day is marked by educational institutions, and multiple organizations arranging a number of events to showcase the importance of Television as a vital scientific invention in our daily lives.
Television is regarded as the major and largest traditional source of video viewership. The screen sizes have changed over time including the emergence of social media and YouTube, where people post, create, stream and consume content on multiple platforms.
The news screen sizes are replacing the Television slowly but still the number of households with television sets globally is rising to continue.
Interaction Between Emerging Broadcast and Television
The interaction is continued in between traditional and modern forms of broadcasts rapidly in the contemporary era of information and technological age, for instance, newspapers, magazines, books, and television are being incorporated into the modern form of broadcasts like Google, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube etc.
Today a reader can read newspapers on the Internet meanwhile can see live Television on YouTube.
This interaction between the internet (social media) as a modern form of communication and traditional modes of broadcast like Television, Radio, and Newspapers is creating a fruitful opportunity to educate and raise awareness about the core issues of our communities, societies, and the planet.
United Nations on World Television Day
To recognize the services and role of the creative impacts, delivered by the television on decision-making process and attracting world attention towards conflicts, violence, and threats to peace and security.
Also, regarding the role of Television in gaining focus on other major issues of the world, including social and economic issues, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) termed November 21 as World Television Day by passing Resolution 51/205 of UNGA on 17 December 1996.
World Television Day is not mainly a celebration or marking of the scientific tool, but rather it is celebrated to mark the philosophy of services Television represents.
This representation of Television depicts is in the form of a role of communication and globalization in the contemporary world.
The UN held the first World Television Forum, on November 21 and 22, 1996 in which leading media figures and resource persons met under the umbrella of the United Nations to discuss the growing importance of Television in the contemporary changing world order and to review the mutual cooperation between the nation states in the information age.
That is why the UNGA decided to proclaim November 21 as World Television Day. United Nations has done the recognition of Television for its increasing impact on the process of decision-making from lower to higher levels.
Television was thus acknowledged by the UN as a major tool in information, channeling, broadcasting, and creating public opinion. The impact, presence, and influence of Television on world politics is undeniable.
