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World Television Day

The television has come a long way in a short time, becoming a central technology to the dissemination of information that has now reached a global scale. World Television Day on November 21 recognizes the way the medium has shaped our lives, changed how we live, and how our economies and cultures have developed. With increasing globalization, television has the capacity to help bridge gaps between cultures, along with the power to wash away and disappear long standing ways of life in alarmingly short order. With the growth and rapid rise of the internet, where does the television stand in our lives? Will the most pervasive and powerful medium of the past century even survive into the earliest years of the next? Join the discussion!