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The Broadcast Programming Marketplace after the Children's Television Act of 1990.
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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
Defining "Educational and Informational" for Children's Television Programming.
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Neff, Maryl L. – 1994
This paper argues that the Children's Television Act of 1990 (CTA) required television broadcasters to air educational and informational children's programming, but Federal Communications Commission (FCC) policy did little to clarify the definition of "educational and informational." The paper first examines the historical…
Descriptors: Childrens Television, Definitions, Federal Legislation, Federal Regulation