World Television Day

World Television Day Facts & Quotes

• TV stimulates the economy by providing countless avenues for jobs. Over 1.2 million people in the European Union alone are employed in the media sector
• In France, 63% of children between the age of 0 and 15 live in a household with 4 screens (TV, computer, tablet etc.).
• Television creates authority. When something is shown on TV it has a particular authority about it because you know that you and millions of other people are seeing it and that professionals have produced it.
• In Canada, nearly 95% of people aged 18-34 watch TV each month, which results in 12 and a half hours of weekly TV watching.
• Television is a medium because anything well done is rare. - Fred Allen, American comedian and radio show host.

World Television Day Top Events and Things to Do

• Spread awareness on social media by using the hashtags #WorldTelevisionDay, #TelevisionPhilosophy and #TVDay.
• Get together with friends and create your own short news segment as if it was on television. This will be a fun, creative experiment about what it feels like to read the news on TV, and you’ll also learn a lot along the way!
• Donate your TV if you have an extra one you can live without. You can donate it to Donation Town who will then pass it along to a family that does not have a TV. It is both helping a family in need and better for the environment because your TV is not ending up in a landfill.
• Watch a documentary on your TV. Documentaries educate the people on a variety of topics such as AIDS/HIV, Holocaust, Nuclear Accidents, Human Trafficking, Drug Rings and Diabetes complications.
• Read a book about television. Some suggestions are: Television Studies, A Companion to Television and A Study of Modern Television.

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