television

Summary

television is a type of mass media^[1]. television ranks in the top 8% of type_of_mass_media entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,678 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• television is credited with the discovery of Charles Francis Jenkins^[3].
• television is credited with the discovery of Philo Farnsworth^[4].
• television is credited with the discovery of Kenjirō Takayanagi^[5].
• television is credited with the discovery of John Logie Baird^[6].
• television's instance of is recorded as type of mass media^[7].
• television is a type of broadcasting^[8].
• television is a type of mass media^[9].
• television is a type of economic activity^[10].
• television's Commons category is recorded as Television^[11].
• television's patron saint is recorded as Clare of Assisi^[12].
• television's industry is recorded as TV industry^[13].
• television's Unicode character is recorded as 📺^[14].
• television comprises television station^[15].
• television comprises television channel^[16].
• television comprises television network^[17].
• television comprises television set^[18].
• television comprises television watcher^[19].
• television comprises people-meter^[20].
• television comprises TV industry^[21].
• television's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Television^[22].
• television's Commons gallery is recorded as Television^[23].
• television's product or material produced is recorded as television program^[24].
• television's topic's main Wikimedia portal is recorded as Portal:Television^[25].
• television's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary^[26].
• television's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 6^[27].

Body

Definition and Type

television's instance of is recorded as type of mass media^[7]. Recorded subclass of include broadcasting^[8], mass media^[9], and economic activity^[10].

Use and Application

Components include television station^[15]; television channel^[16]; television network^[17]; television set^[18], a physical tool^[28]; television watcher^[19]; and people-meter^[20], an electrical device^[29].

Influence

Things named for television include TV Tropes^[30], a wiki^[31], founded in 2004^[32]; telethon^[33]; TwellV^[34], a business^[35], in Japan^[36], founded in 2006^[37], headquartered in Jingūmae^[38]; TV-pucken^[39], an ice hockey competition^[40], in Sweden^[41], founded in 1959^[42]; and Novorossia TV^[43], a television channel^[44], founded in 2014^[45], headquartered in Donetsk^[46].

Why It Matters

television ranks in the top 8% of type_of_mass_media entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,678 views/month).^[2] television has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[47] television is known by 48 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[48]

Entities named for television include TV Tropes^[30], a wiki^[31], founded in 2004^[32]; telethon^[33]; TwellV^[34], a business^[35], in Japan^[36], founded in 2006^[37], headquartered in Jingūmae^[38]; TV-pucken^[39], an ice hockey competition^[40], in Sweden^[41], founded in 1959^[42]; and Novorossia TV^[43], a television channel^[44], founded in 2014^[45], headquartered in Donetsk^[46].