television

telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images
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television

Summary

television is a type of mass media[1]. television ranks in the top 8% of type_of_mass_media entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (11,350 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • television is credited with the discovery of Charles Francis Jenkins[3].
  • television is credited with the discovery of Philo Farnsworth[4].
  • television is credited with the discovery of Kenjirō Takayanagi[5].
  • television is credited with the discovery of John Logie Baird[6].
  • television's instance of is recorded as type of mass media[7].
  • television is a type of broadcasting[8].
  • television is a type of mass media[9].
  • television is a type of economic activity[10].
  • television's Commons category is recorded as Television[11].
  • television's patron saint is recorded as Clare of Assisi[12].
  • television's industry is recorded as TV industry[13].
  • television's Unicode character is recorded as 📺[14].
  • television comprises television station[15].
  • television comprises television channel[16].
  • television comprises television network[17].
  • television comprises television set[18].
  • television comprises television watcher[19].
  • television comprises people-meter[20].
  • television comprises TV industry[21].
  • television's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Television[22].
  • television's Commons gallery is recorded as Television[23].
  • television's product or material produced is recorded as television program[24].
  • television's topic's main Wikimedia portal is recorded as Portal:Television[25].
  • television's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[26].
  • television's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 6[27].

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Definition and Type

television's instance of is recorded as type of mass media[7]. Recorded subclass of include broadcasting[8], mass media[9], and economic activity[10].

Use and Application

Components include television station[15]; television channel[16]; television network[17]; television set[18], a physical tool[28]; television watcher[19]; and people-meter[20], an electrical device[29].

Influence

Things named for television include TwellV[30], a business[31], in Japan[32], founded in 2006[33], headquartered in Jingūmae[34]; TV Tropes[35], a wiki[36], founded in 2004[37]; TV-pucken[38], an ice hockey competition[39], in Sweden[40], founded in 1959[41]; Novorossia TV[42], a television channel[43], founded in 2014[44], headquartered in Donetsk[45]; and telethon[46].

Why It Matters

television ranks in the top 8% of type_of_mass_media entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (11,350 views/month).[2] television has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[47] television is known by 48 alternative names across languages and contexts.[48]

Entities named for television include TwellV[30], a business[31], in Japan[32], founded in 2006[33], headquartered in Jingūmae[34]; TV Tropes[35], a wiki[36], founded in 2004[37]; TV-pucken[38], an ice hockey competition[39], in Sweden[40], founded in 1959[41]; Novorossia TV[42], a television channel[43], founded in 2014[44], headquartered in Donetsk[45]; and telethon[46].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [7] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . stacja7.pl. stacja7.pl. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [30] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [35] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [38] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [42] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [46] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [36] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [37] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [39] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  10. [40] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  11. [41] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  12. [43] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  13. [44] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  14. [45] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [47] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [48] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 12d ago · Andre Engels · 2026-08-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Fandom article id apple:Television
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P6262]]: apple:Television, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/143414288|Television (#143414288)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/5500|Apple Wiki ("
  2. 5w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 2dDXCN
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 7w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-06-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Vgc theme id 3823
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13358]]: 3823, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/179716333|TV (#179716333)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6787|VGC themes]] #mix'n'match"
  4. 9w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id h0008817-televize
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0008817-televize, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  5. 10w ago · HelloImSteven · 2026-06-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Foldoc id TV
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P12946]]: television, import FOLDOC ID ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/wikibase-cli/9aef88c707e54/|details]])"
  6. 13w ago · Trivialist · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag television
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: television, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289961699|television (#289961699)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #m"
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