Advantages or Disadvantages of Television Modern age is the age of Science. It has provided us with many tools and implements making our life happier and easier. It has proved to be boon to provide us good means of recreation. Television is the best example of it. The television was invented by an Englishman namely John. L. Baird in 1926. It stepped in India in 1965 but gained popularity in 1982 when ninth Asian games were held in Delhi. Today, almost every third house in cities boasts of a television. It is not only confined to cities, gradually it is gaining popularity among the well to do villagers as well. The government is making its best efforts to connect the most far off villages and towns with television network.The first television centre in India was set up in Delhi in 1951 though public broadcasting began in August, 1965. Now the country has more than two hundred relay stations and about a dozen broad casting stations. By the end of the seventh plan period it is hoped that all far flung areas will come under television network.The value of television as a means of recreation and mass education is very great. Holding arms in our room we can watch any end of the world. In the West television has brought about a revolution in the field of education. It has become an important medium in the field of mass education, in Europe, Australia and America. In these countries the peasants are also being benefitted by television. In this sphere Japan's agricultural programme is worth emulation. It is hoped that in near future our television would be broadcasting educative programmes. Television has to play a major role in India. Ours is an advancing country which is making giant strides in every field. However as things stand today in India television is more a means of recreation than means of education. Hence a reorientation of the television programmes is a must. We have to change our attitude and use television for what it is worth.