Reports that Nigeria has two sets of broadcasting systems, one run by the federal government and the other by the states. Discusses various problems with the systems. (FL)

Presents evidence to support contentions that the media influences public acceptance of traditional sex-role and racial stereotypes. (MH)

Examines the broadcasting experiences of Aboriginal radio in Australia with respect to the "cultural dependency" of a non-Western group within a Western culture. Finds a variety of problems facing a maturing media in the areas of professionalism, knowledge of audience, and communicational relationship between the majority and minority…

Analyzed images of aging presented in five television programs of 1989 most watched by the elderly: "Murder, She Wrote,""The Golden Girls,""Matlock,""Jake and the Fatman," and "In the Heat of the Night." Reveals earlier stereotypes of the elderly have been replaced by more positive stereotypes of them as powerful, affluent, healthy, active,…

Discussion of the relationship between education and broadcasting in the United States focuses on a historical review of periodical literature published between 1919 and 1924 relating to the educational use of radio, and literature published between 1937 and 1974 relating to the educational use of television. (35 references) (LRW)

Network television news has often been accused of inciting and prolonging incidents of public violence, whether riots or terrorism, and in South Africa this type of thinking has led to increasingly stringent restrictions on both domestic and foreign media covering the violent unrest there. A study determined a chronology of events and analyzed the…

This paper examines the government's authority to regulate indecent broadcasts, beginning with a historical overview of the Federal Communication Commission's (FCC) involvement with broadcast indecency and its application in case law. First Amendment considerations are discussed and some suggestions are made regarding how the Commission should…

Several forces are allowing, for the first time in the history of television, the creation of prime time texts with lesbian characters. Chief among these forces are the relatively marginalized position of broadcast television brought on by increasing cable penetration and home video ownership, liberalized censorship guidelines on the part of the…

A study was conducted to determine the socioeconomic status (SES) of listeners of all-news radio. Subjects, 102 females and 98 males in the Philadelphia metropolitan area, responded to a 12-statement questionnaire in a telephone survey. Although previous studies suggested that listeners of low SES regarded radio primarily as a source of…

The findings of a planning study of arts and cultural programing on commercial and public radio and television are summarized in this report. Focusing on the decision making process on arts and cultural subjects in the broadcast industry, the report presents information on the following topics: how the phrase "arts and cultural programing" is…

This study systematically analyzed all public access channel programing on a New York City cable television system in an attempt to answer two basic questions: (1) What was the content of the programing for the initial two year period of operation? and (2) What initial directions, if any, did the programing take during the first two-year period?…

A pilot project was undertaken to explore ways to profile public radio audiences inexpensively and simply. The major effort was through use of the station's monthly programing guide mailing list. Persons found in this list were interviewed and their listening habits compared with a general survey (baseline) group. The survey showed that public…

The author addresses his dissertation to two audiences: the mass communications practitioner, to help update his knowledge about the phenomena, and the researcher, to provide a starting point for a systematic pursuit of knowledge about media. In the first part, the author presents a model for persuasive mass communications, specifying the critical…

Describes the training process for the local takeover of the New York University--Reading (Pennsylvania) Consortium interactive cable television project for the delivery of social services to senior citizens. The process included hiring and training of staff, training of users, and creation and staffing of the organization needed to operate the…

Advertisers should note that married working women tend to read more magazines and watch less television than married non-working women. (RL)