Given that public television must often resort to "talking faces" to fill time (because discussion programs are so cheap to produce), consideration needs to be given to how to do this in audience-attracting ways. One particularly useful method is to pattern the discussion on the enduring human ritual of the sacrifice: with the audience as…

During the years 1967-69, the Instruction Subcommittee of the Joint Committee on Education held a series of hearings to pinpoint the financial and organizational problems of educational television in the state of Washington. The problems revealed by this investigation prompted the Subcommittee to contract with Dr. Kenneth Christiansen, Director of…

The 1972 WEST conference report represents a cooperative project of the Western Educational Society for Telecommunications and the ERIC Clearinghouse on Media and Technology. The conference featured discussions of public television, instructional television, cable television, national educational radio, and national public radio, educational…

Television has not delivered mass educational gains for large numbers of students, reports one director of development projects at the Maryland Center for Public Broadcasting. Experiences with the British Open University, the University of Mid-America, and public television are discussed. (LBH)

In describing a public television program about the Salem witch trials, this article discusses the authenticity of props, the accuracy of events, and some errors in the production. It also points out some inaccuracies in sources and other sources that would be valuable for teaching seventeenth century colonial history. (SRT)

The Annenberg/Corporation for Public Broadcasting Project, a 15-year plan to integrate telecommunications and advanced technology with higher education is discussed. Viewer-students can sign up with local colleges to earn academic credits. (Author/MLW)

Scheduling the morning "kiddie" block has become an important issue since PBS's (Public Broadcasting Service) 1990-91 children's initiative. Adding to the mix of children's programs is the upcoming "PTV, The Ready to Learn Channel on PBS." This services promises more children's titles as well as more hours of material for…

Louisiana Public Broadcasting's (LPB's) Educational Services Directory presents an alphabetical listing of instructional television (ITV) program descriptions, a program schedule, and other educational services information. Sections in this Directory include: ITV Series Descriptions; ITV Broadcast Schedule; Program Content matrix; Going the…

An examination of the pros and cons of a public broadcasting service on a national level." (Editor/AK)

Examines the viewing behavior of 120 adults, and the relationship of their social characteristics to their knowledge about Africa after viewing the public television miniseries, "The Africans." Found no strong social correlates to viewing or frequency of viewing. Viewing "The Africans" accounted for some variance in knowledge…

Demonstrates the role that formative research played in the development of one repeated format within "Square One TV," an educational television series about mathematics. Illustrates the value of the "CTW Model"--the collaborative production of educational programs by the Children's Television Workshop. (AEF)

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) established three programming services in 1979 by vote of the member stations. One of these services, PTV-3, delivers specifically educational programming serving out-of-school youngsters, providing inschool instruction, and offering adult education. While the number of adults earning college credit through…

It's a happy village populated by folks who speak both Spanish and English, and boys and girls can now visit it via public television. (Editor)

The complete text and pictures of a slide/tape and videotape presentation explain Prime Time School Television (PTST), a non-profit organization, with emphasis on the active role of participants in utilizing prime time programs in everyday teaching-learning situations. PTST encourages teachers to recommend and use evening television programs as…