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World Television Day 2025: Learn 5 lesser-known facts

Nascimento Pinto

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By Nascimento Pinto
Published Nov 20, 2025

Television in India

The first television came to India in Delhi in 1959 before colour transmission began in 1982, and has since then evolved into much more like the latest smart TV

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World Television Day

Every year, World Television Day 2025 is observed on November 21 to celebrate the role of the television in our lives including communication and globalisation

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John Logie Baird is credited as the early inventor of the mechanical version; Philo Farnsworth, also known as the `Father of Television` for the electronic one

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Origin of the word

The word `television` comes from the Greek word `tele` meaning `far` and the Latin word `visio` meaning sight, and was coined in the 1900s

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Origins

The United Nations General Assembly marked November 21 as World Television Day in 1996 in recognition of its increasing impact on the world

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