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Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1983
Testimony presented at this hearing focuses on ways in which television can have a positive impact on children's education, what is known about the impacts of television programming on children, and what Congress can do to promote television's positive educational values. Witnesses include the following: John D. Abel, senior vice president,…
Descriptors: Childrens Television, Educational Television, Government Role, Hearings
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Energy and Commerce. – 1988
This report provides transcripts of two hearings held 6 months apart before a subcommittee of the House of Representatives on three bills which would require the Federal Communications Commission to reinstate restrictions on advertising on children's television programs. The texts of the bills under consideration, H.R. 3288, H.R. 3966, and H.R.…
Descriptors: Advertising, Childrens Television, Commercial Television, Federal Legislation
Peer reviewedKinkel, Dale; Watkins, Bruce – Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 1987
Analyzes the development of children's television regulation and discusses the various attempts at reform and the reasons behind their lack of success. Research on children and television is described, including the development of Action for Children's Television, and the future outlook for regulation is assessed. Eighty references are provided.…
Descriptors: Broadcast Television, Childrens Television, Federal Legislation, Federal Regulation
Peer reviewedMcLellan, Iain – Journal of Educational Television, 1987
Discusses the use of video technology and community, or narrowcast, television in developing countries, particularly Africa. The importance of the media in improving communication between people and their government is emphasized, and the political, social and technical problems involved are described. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Community Control, Decentralization, Developing Nations
Rainery, Richard – 1984
One in a series of papers by the Rural Research Agency devoted to the study of telecommunications services and systems sponsored by the State of Alaska, this paper concentrates on the technology of television delivery and distribution to the citizens of the state. It most closely scrutinizes entertainment television, but much of its analysis is…
Descriptors: Broadcast Television, Commercial Television, Communications Satellites, Educational Television
Association for Educational Communications and Technology, Washington, DC. – 1983
Satellite telecasts and videotape are discussed in this two-part paper, which is based on the preliminary experiences of Project BEST (Basic Education Skills through Technology), a dissemination project for communicating about the use of technology in teaching basic skills, and providing functional experience with new information communication…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Communications Satellites, Design Requirements, Federal Programs
