Television includes a substantial amount of sexual content, and TV's sexual messages are clearly an important part of adolescent sexual socialization. At a time when the nation is facing a sexual health crisis among young people, special attention needs to be paid to those media depictions that could influence how young people develop their…

Shows that youth's image of TV police is not correlated with his image of actual police; television images held by delinquents and middle-class adolescents do not differ. (TO)

Armed with evidence that Spanish-speaking Americans are unserved by TV, researchers in the Southwest assembled some findings on what to do about it. (Author)

Refutes a study originally published by Edith Efron which contended that network television news coverage of the 1968 presidential campaign was biased, concluding that campaign coverage was positive for both presidential candidates. (RB)

A discussion of the Federal Communications Commission's Prime-Time Rule'' restricting local TV station use of network programming in key evening hours and its implications for television programming. (HB)

Discusses programs of the New Christian Right, an evangelical group which applies pressures designed to affect censorship and to cause boycotts of products advertised on "offensive" television programs. Methods used in current censorship activities are highlighted. References are provided. (EJS)

Concludes that the advent of an independent television station had little apparent effect on the programing of three network stations in the same market. (FL)

Content analyses of 14 hours of children's television programing were conducted to determine messages concerning cross-racial relationships. Onscreen cross-racial interactions comprised just one percent of the children's programing sampled. Black/White relationships were neither more nor less likely than White/White relationships to involve…

Examines the extent to which violence contributes to the size of the audience for a television program. (FL)

Concludes that viewing religious programing on television is positively correlated to the need to know oneself better and negatively correlated to the need for entertainment. (FL)

Presents a taxonomy of formal features of television and examines ways in which these features are used in current productions for children. Coding categories for formal features include action, pace, visual events, and auditory features. Concludes that commercial producers stress formal features as much or more than content. (PD)

Reports that the television program "Roots" evoked positive reactions from British viewers in terms of their perceived attitude change toward Blacks and in particular, American Blacks; their personal and community identification in the matter of race integration; and the reaffirmation of their ideas about the negative aspects of slavery.…

Reviews 25 years of experimental research into production and presentation variables, such as technical variations, content and organization strategies, and performer variables. Suggestions are made for continuing research in specific areas, and a bibliography of 45 references is appended. (Author/BK)

Reports that schizophrenic-labeled persons consistently rated television programs as closer to reality than did a sample of nonschizophrenic respondents. (FL)

Synthesizes the results of empirical research on the role and impact of television in the lives of Black Americans, focusing on the portrayal of Blacks, television as a source of information, the behavior of Black viewers, and television's effects on Black children. Forty-nine sources are cited. (FM)