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{{Short description|International observance, 21 November}}
In December 1996 the [[United Nations]] proclaimed 21 November as '''World Television Day''' [[list of minor secular observances#November|commemorating]] the date on which the first World Television Forum was held in 1996.<ref name="UN_ARES51205">{{UN document |docid=A-RES-51-205 |type=Resolution |body=General Assembly |session=51 |resolution_number=205 |accessdate=2010-11-21|title=Proclamation of 21 November as World Television Day|date=17 December 1996}}</ref>
Opposition to this declaration took the form of 11 abstentions to a vote on the resolution; in expressing their opposition, the delegation from [[Germany]] said:<ref>{{ UN document |docid=A-51-PV.88 |body=General Assembly |type=Verbotim Report |session=51 |meeting=88 |page=24 |anchor=pg024-bk02 |date=17 December 1996 |speakername=Mr. Henze | speakernation=Germany |accessdate=2008-07-09 }}</ref>
{{cquote|There are already three United Nations days encompassing similar subjects: [[World Press Freedom Day]]; [[World Telecommunication and Information Society Day]]; and [[World Development Information Day]]. To add another day does not make much sense... [T]elevision is only one means of information and an information medium to which a considerable majority of the world population has no access... That vast majority could easily look at World Television Day as a rich man's day. They do not have access to television. There are more important information media and here I would mention radio in particular. We think it is more important to enhance the role of those media than that of television.}}
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