The Television

Television is a modern means of entertainment and communications. It was invented by John Logie Baird in 1926. It is one of the miraculous inventions of science and technology. It flashes visual images along with sounds at a distance by electromagnetic waves. Visual images are seen on the screen. Nowadays the television is widely used all over the world.

This recent and famous invention has many uses and advantages. It provides us news, views and entertainment. We can learn many things throught the television. So it is one of the means of getting education. While we are listening to the news, we can see the pictures and scenes on the screen. We can learn and enjoy them sitting in our rooms. The pictures of national and international programmes, events, games, etc. can be seen on the screen. The scenes of natural beauties and gifts, natural disaster, wars etc. can be brought into our rooms by means of the television.

The television is the most popular means of entertainment. We can enjoy songs, music, cultural programmes, dances, dramas, poems etc. on it. Nowadays we can enjoy any programmes organized anywhere. We can learn many thinga abouthealth, science and technology, geography, history etc. through it. Similarly, we can broadcast the advertisements of goods, services and jobs on the televison. Futhremore, the notice of government offices and other organizations can be broadcast on the television.

In the field of education, it can be used as one of the audo-visual aids. We can make a good collection of different events, programmes, disasters etc. ; and they can be used in the classby means of the television. The children who are very small can be easily motivate if they can see visual images and sounds together.

Although the television has made arevolution in the fields of entertainment, communication, infromation, business and education, it also has some disadvantages. It has badly affected small children. Specially, school children dco not want to study their text-books and do not do their homework. They waste their study time watching worthless television programmes. we are often exposed to horrors , pornography and different scenes of crime which affect the children adversely. If we usually watch the television progrmmes for a long time, our eye-sight can be affected badly.

In order to have advantages of the T.V,. we must be selective. All the programmes are not useful. We have to watch only useful programmes. the programmes which have adverse effects must not be watched. Adults should select the gtood ones ofr the small children. We should not watch the T.V for a long time. It is wise to watch the T.V. programmes properly.