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Wurtzel, Alan; Lometti, Guy – Society, 1984
Two officals from the American Broadcasting Companies (ABC) (1) review a 1982 National Institute of Mental Health Study on television and violence, and (2) summarize the broadcast standards, practices, policies, and procedures employed by the network regarding the depiction of violence. (GC)
Descriptors: Aggression, Broadcast Industry, Policy, Programing (Broadcast)
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Tuchman, Gaye – Society, 1976
Argues that contemporary television programming helps maintain the existing political, economic, and social systems by refusing to question basic American assumptions about social arrangements preferring to take these arrangements for granted as the natural conditions of human life. These characteristics are particularly clear in its treatment of…
Descriptors: Audiences, Broadcast Industry, Broadcast Television, Commercial Television
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Marks, Leonard H. – Society, 1975
Proposes that a review be made of the entire subject of future international communications developments, including direct international broadcasting via satellite, and that this study should be directed at putting direct broadcasting into a realistic perspective of the range of new technologies and the problems and opportunities which they offer…
Descriptors: Broadcast Industry, Broadcast Television, Censorship, Communications
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Laskin, Paul L.; Chayes, Abram – Society, 1975
Argues that what is needed is a principle requiring mutual agreement for direct international broadcasting via satellite and stipulating that the parties reach such agreements in accordance with applicable provisions of international law, including the principle of free flow of information, arguing that such a requirement would permit each state…
Descriptors: Broadcast Industry, Broadcast Television, Censorship, Communications
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Oppenheim, Jerrold – Society, 1975
Advocates that the Federal Communications Council should remove unnecessary UHF restrictions to dramatically increase the number of UHF stations, put all existing stations on the UHF band, and license new low-power stations on the UHF channels, arguing that television fails to serve a sizable number of viewers. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Administrative Agencies, Administrative Policy, Broadcast Industry, Commercial Television