Suggestions for using educational television to deal with the major problems conronting the world community today. (LS)

"Weighs alternatives in costs and programming quality of color versus black and white." (Editor)

Chronicles development and production of television series, "The Counseling Forum," that deals primarily with mental health counseling issues for broadcasting on Public Broadcasting Service, educational, and cable stations. Provides specific steps that mental health counselors can follow in development and production of television series as public…

Describes the development of a new television show on PBS called "Between the Lions" that is aimed at developing literacy of primary school children. Set in a library, the show's producers met with librarians for advice and will have libraries participating in local outreach programs to help promote the show. (LRW)

Discusses television in the 1960s as a form of communication including commercial television (CTV), public television (PTV), educational television (ETV), and instructional television (ITV). The Educational Media Study Panel (EMSP), an official advisory group to the Commissioner and the U.S. Office of Education, studied the growth of television…

Discusses partnerships between public broadcasting organizations and educational institutions. Highlights include examples of partnerships currently underway; the third generation of the World Wide Web which includes broadband delivery that is necessary for integrating media; and public television today, including interactive television. (LRW)

Since the inception of instructional television (ITV) in the 1950s and 1960s, public broadcasting has been a valued source of quality video resources for the nation's classrooms. From the early days of "television teachers," whose expertise could be broadcast across wide geographical areas, to today's digital video delivery, public television…

Critics contend American public television has failed to realize the potential envisioned by the Carnegie Commission on Educational Television. Using Ernest Bormann's theory of fantasy theme analysis as a framework to examine public TV reveals that American public television has been unable to develop a coherent rhetorical vision or a clear…

Part of a series of statistical surveys of public broadcasting based on data provided by the licensees of the Corporation for Public Braodcasting, this report provides details of public television program content for the fiscal year 1982. The chapters include information on the following: (1) definitions and categories, (2) the public television…

Consistent with the objectives of previous research investigating ways of increasing the range of program choice to television viewers, this study explores the possibilities of taping the original cable broadcast of programs from local commercial and noncommercial stations and repeating them on otherwise empty cable channels at times that would…

This report examines the involvement of the Commonwealth of Virginia in both the support and governing of public television stations. There are seven such stations in the state, operated by four educational television entities; each of these corporations is controlled by a board of directors made up of citizens from the particular area served by…

Based on data collected by several individuals in recent years, this report is intended to provide an overview of American public broadcasting and its audiences. The size, characteristics, and viewing patterns of public, noncommercial television viewers are described. Among the findings cited in the report are the following: (1) 80 percent of…