The Television section of the proceedings contains the following 10 papers: "Financial Commitment and Performance in Local Television News: Applying the Industrial Organizational Model" (Angela Powers); "The Relationship between Censorship and the Emotional and Critical Tone of Television News Coverage of the Persian Gulf War" (John E. Newhagen); "The Dynamics of Television Program Audience Accumulation" (Guy E. Lometti and others); "Development Orientation of Domestic and International News on the CNN World Report" (Chun-il Park and others); "How Cable Television Network Programming Strategies Affect Time Spent Viewing" (Beth E. Barnes); "The Rodney King Tape and the Viewer's Role in the Rituals of TV News--Seeing Was Believing" (Sandra Haarsager); "Video News Releases: Breaching the Covenant with Viewers" (Travis Linn); "Filling the Gap: Congress Increases Its Video as TV News Cuts Budgets" (Floyd J. McKay); "The Ceremonial of Television News Sweeps: 'Series Sleaze' and 'Series Stress'" (Matthew C. Ehrlich); and "Behind the Bleeps: Organizational Processes and the Roles of the Network Television Censors" (John Weispfenning). (RS)