What day is it?

In today’s world, it is difficult to imagine life without television, radio, telephone and Internet communication. In fact, it’s really hard to estimate the amount of work that workers in these industries do on a daily basis. For the modern world, this field of services creates great comfort and makes life much easier. Employees of these areas usually do not rest on official weekends and holidays, like most citizens, they do not know bad weather or seasons, for them the most important task is to provide society with fresh and objective information. In order to support the initiative of radio, television and communication workers in Ukraine, their professional holiday was introduced, which is celebrated annually on November 16.

How did the idea to celebrate the Day of Radio, Television and Communication Workers of Ukraine come about?

Around the 1860s, the invention of wireless communication was first claimed. After that, many more studies were conducted, but all of them only confirmed the existence of this kind of connection.

Over time, the first radio towers began to appear and the first radio and television broadcasts began.

The first telecast in Ukraine lasted forty minutes and took place on February 1, 1939. In the post-war times, Ukrainian television was waiting for a wave of prosperity. The government has drawn attention to the importance of such broadcasts and introduced nationwide measures to improve the industry.

Already in 1989, commercial television began to emerge in Ukraine. We can observe the results of many years of development now, and as we can see, they are simply incredible.

The first call from a mobile phone in Ukraine was made by the President of Ukraine in 1993. The phone of that time was much larger in size and weighed ten times more than the modern one.

The idea of ​​introducing a professional holiday appeared in 1994. It was then that the employees of the Ukrteleradiocompany proposed to the government to find a day for the celebration and received support for this initiative. The day of the celebration was chosen in honor of the day of the first radio broadcast in Ukraine – November 16, 1924.

Interesting Facts

• The first live broadcast in Ukraine took place in 1939. A forty-minute broadcast was held in the Kyiv television studio, during which Soviet viewers had the opportunity to observe the portrait of Sergo Ordzhonikidze.
• Despite the fact that the main channel of the country was the Central TV of the USSR, the first detailed news about the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was reported on May 12, 1986 in the news TV program “Actual Camera”.
• The oldest television program, which has been on the air since 1954, is the American talk show The Tonight Show.
• The statistics of a survey of people about the place where they listen to the radio most often seemed interesting. 70% of respondents prefer the car, the other 30% choose the bathroom or the kitchen.
• The spread of the Internet did not affect the popularity of radio. On the contrary, people began to listen to radio stations even more actively, because now they have a greater choice.

Statistics

• 86% of Ukrainians receive information about events in the world and the country through television.

• On average, an adult watches 3 TV channels on a regular basis.
• 4 hours and 20 minutes – that’s how much time an average Ukrainian listens to the radio every day.

The number of mobile users in Ukraine at the beginning of 2020:

1. Kyivstar – 26.2 million;
2. Vodafone Ukraine – 19.8 million;
3. Lifecell – 6.9 million;
4. Intertelecom – 1 million

Day of radio, television and communication workers of Ukraine in history

• 1860
  July 21

  Malone Loomis from the state of Washington USA discovered a method of wireless communication. After 12 years, he received US patent 129971 “Improvements in telegraphy” for wireless communication.
• 1887

  German physicist G.R. Hertz proves the validity of the hypothesis of J.K. Maxwell about the existence of electromagnetic waves propagating at the speed of light.
• 1895

  Guglielmo Marconi and Oleksandr Popov simultaneously conduct the first experiments with wireless communication.
• 1912
  April 14

  There was a tragedy with the ship “Titanic”. The signal about the misfortune was first received by the Marconi Society station in New York. 705 people were rescued by ships that, having received radiograms on the Marconi system, arrived at the scene of the disaster.
• 1924
  November 16

  Day of the first radio broadcast in Ukraine (Kharkov).
• 1939
  February 1

  The first forty-minute telecast took place in Ukraine.
• 1989
  ?

  Commercial television began to emerge in Ukraine.
• 1993

  The first call from a mobile phone in Ukraine was made by the President of Ukraine.
• 1994
  November, 11th

  The beginning of the celebration of the Day of Radio, Television and Communications Workers of Ukraine.

Frequent Questions and answers on the Day of Radio, Television and Communications Workers of Ukraine

Why is this day important?

Radio, television and the Internet certainly have a huge influence on public opinion. We should not forget about the financial side of this field of activity, because it provides jobs for hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians.

Operators, presenters, journalists and many other voice workers provide us with important and interesting news, entertain us in long traffic jams home and provide operational information about events in the country.

Sometimes workers in this industry can start to lose inspiration. For example, when the number of viewers decreases or they receive complaints. It is important to pay attention to this holiday so that people have an idea of ​​the daily work of radio, television and communication employees.

After all, this is an opportunity to open the curtain for viewers, listeners and users to the world of content creation. Undoubtedly, when people see at least a small part of the real work of professionals in the industry, they will understand that this is not “just a picture, what’s up” or “I can also play songs on the radio, isn’t it difficult”, but it is really difficult and troublesome work.

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