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Download full textCalvert, Sandra; Kotler, Jennifer; Kuhl, Alison; Riboli, Michael – 2001
The impact of the Children's Television Act, which requires broadcasters to provide educational and informational programs for children, was examined by having 141 second through sixth graders watch 16 popular and unpopular television programs and then assess the motivational appeal of, and children's learning from, these programs. Popular and…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Commercial Television, Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis
Peer reviewedWinter, Robert – Educational Media International, 1998
Describes the commercial pressures faced by public service educational television and results of poor public sector funding for core educational establishments. Discusses new technologies and financial deprivation; new partnerships and players; and the role for public broadcasters. (AEF)
Descriptors: Broadcast Industry, Commercial Television, Educational Change, Educational Resources
Peer reviewedBanks, David A.; Ledford, Bruce R. – International Journal of Instructional Media, 1994
Funding shortfalls in education and commercialism have given rise to vendor-created curricula. Too often values are imposed on young minds, and some vendors have tended to be more concerned with their products and services than with student learning. The rise in popularity of the Channel One in-school news program has set off a nationwide…
Descriptors: Advertising, Commercial Television, Economic Factors, Educational Resources
