Today is World Television Day, the UN’s celebration of the global cultural impact of television. Today, like every other day, billions of people will together spend billions of hours watching TV, talking about it and sharing it.To mark World Television Day, TV companies from around the world have compiled facts and stats to bring the scale and popularity of TV to life as it continues to live at the heart of the world’s media consumption.In December 1996 the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 21 November as World Television Day commemorating the date on which the first World Television Forum was held in 1996.