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Balas, Glenda R. – 2000
Contending that public broadcasting has great potential to invigorate national discourses and to function as an agent of social change; at the beginning of the 21st century, many public television licensees are united solely by a core programming schedule and the need to raise funds at least four times a year. The paper traces the history of…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Audience Response, Educational Television, Government Role
Aufderheide, Patricia – 1994
A study examined the effectiveness of the Children's Television Act of 1990 in altering the marketplace for informational and educational children's programming on commercial broadcast television. Producers and distributors of nationally available series that commercial broadcasters were using in 1993 to meet the requirements of the Act were…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Broadcast Industry, Broadcast Television, Educational Television
Peacocke, Rosemary W. – 1995
This paper describes the proposed School Without Walls program in the United Kingdom, a television-centered project which is designed to deliver high quality nursery (preschool) education direct to children at a fraction of the cost of traditional educational television programming. The daily programs will present a selection of practical learning…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Television, Foreign Countries, Nursery Schools
Calvert, Sandra L.; And Others – 1997
This study assessed the educational and informational television programming provided by four major networks, ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox. Assessed were 29 children's television programs during the 1995-1996 season. Programs were videotaped from 7:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., a time frame when children are most likely to be in the viewing audience. A content…
Descriptors: Childrens Television, Commercial Television, Content Analysis, Educational Television
Anderton, Alice – 1997
The Intertribal Wordpath Society is a nonprofit educational corporation formed to promote the teaching, status, awareness, and use of Oklahoma Indian languages. The Society produces "Wordpath," a weekly 30-minute public access television show about Oklahoma Indian languages and the people who are teaching and preserving them. The show…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Educational Benefits, Educational Television, Elementary Secondary Education
Pietras, Jesse John – 1994
This paper is concerned with the recent developments in federal and state legislation regarding cable franchises and their effect on the establishment of a statewide distance learning network. It begins with an overview of recent legislation regarding cable regulations and presents issues regarding distance education. These include linking cable…
Descriptors: Cable Television, Distance Education, Educational Television, Elementary Secondary Education
Ehman, Lee H. – 1995
The study examines the instructional use of Channel One in a middle school over 18 months' time. Channel One is a 12-minute educational television news program broadcast daily to over 12,000 U.S. secondary schools. It is argued that while many students watch the programming, there is only a small minority of the classrooms where teachers actively…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Curriculum Development, Educational Television, Instructional Materials
Siegel, Paul – 1993
The meaning of "diversity" was at the core of the U.S. Senate debate of 1991-92 concerning continued Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) funding, a debate that was both reported on and fueled by a parallel discourse on the topic in the popular press. Ideas about the diversity of programming fell into three sub-dimensions: (1) political…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Cable Television, Cultural Differences, Discourse Analysis
Mokhtar, Fattawi B. – 1997
The purpose of this study was to investigate viewers' knowledge of program content under various television translation modes and viewing experiences. Subjects were 176 students from the Center for Matriculation Program, Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang, Malaysia. The Spanish version of an instructional television program was used; the program…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Audiovisual Instruction, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Pietras, Jesse John – 1996
This paper describes the state of interactive distance learning in Connecticut, particularly the current and future provision of these services by the telecommunications and cable television industries. The overview examines questions of where obligation and responsibility lie (with schools, local exchange companies, cable franchises, etc.) in…
Descriptors: Cable Franchising, Cable Television, Distance Education, Educational Development
Seels, Barbara; And Others – 1996
This paper summarizes an integrated research study which was conducted of the literature on learning from mass media and instructional television. The body of literature reviewed encompasses 17,500 citations from the Educational Resources Information Clearinghouse (ERIC) and 1,882 citations from Psychological Abstracts. Major research areas…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Beliefs, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis