The Studies on Television section of the proceedings contains the following 16 papers: "Television and the Cultivation of Perceptions about Racial Integration" (Paul Delva and others); "Breaking the News: The Ideology of Television News" (Paul Belgrade); "Whittle's Channel One and CNN's Newsroom: A Systematic Pilot Study of Teen-Oriented News Content" (Kathleen L. Endres and others); "Television News and Entertainment Exposure, Educational Experiences, and College Students' Race-Related Beliefs: Material Factors and Symbolic Racism" (G. Blake Armstrong); "Television Reality and Experience in Constructing Social and Personal Estimates of Risk" (Michael A. Shapiro); "Adolescents' Interpretations of Male-Female Relationships in a Soap Opera" (Kim Walsh-Childers); "Television and Crime Coverage: A Comparison of the Attitudes of News Directors and Victim Advocates" (Tommy Thomason and Paul LaRocque); "Cultivation and Exposure to Television Following the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake" (John E. Newhagen and Marion Lewenstein); "Television and the Family: A Qualitative Study" (Charles Lewis); "Women Correspondents' Visibility on the Network Evening News" (Joe S. Foote); "Do Television Characters Reflect Reality? Analyses of Prime Time Characters" (Coral M. Ohl and Prudence C. Faxon); "Television News Consultants: Exploration of Their Effect on Content" (Betsey Peale and Mark Harmon); "Lying in Prime Time: Ethical Egoism in Situation Comedies" (Larry Z. Leslie); "Journalists' Perceptions of News Selection in Local Television: A Q-Methodology Study" (Dan Berkowitz);"Negativity and Visualization as Criteria for News Selection in Local Television Newscasts" (Stephen C. Coon and Eric Hing-Tat Tse); and "A Model of Job Satisfaction in Local Television Newsrooms" (Angela Powers and Stephen Lacy). (RS)