Andrei Richter is a Professor at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Designed for Service: The Role of Television in Today’s Troubled World

Andrei Richter speaking at the XVI International Media Law Summer School in Kyiv, Ukraine, 6 August 2020. Courtesy of the Center for Democracy and Rule of Law.
An engineer at work in the UNTV master control room at United Nations Headquarters in New York during a recording of the UNTV current affairs programme "World Chronicle" on 2 August 1984. UN Photo/Yutaka Nagata

World Television Day is not so much a celebration of the technology, but rather of the noble ideals that it can be used to support.