A state of the art review is provided of the software/programing aspects of the videocassette industry. Section 1 presents six chapters which deal, respectively, with: (1) an overview of the videocassette medium; (2) a theory of communications related to videocassette programing potential; (3) programing applications; (4) innovative videocassette…

The first phase of the satellite component of a worldwide information grid is over. The real problems are beginning now with the evolution of technology that will beam specialized transmissions from higher-powered satellites into smaller antennae perched on ships, airplanes, and rooftops. This is another matter politically, economically, and…

The contents of this Australian Science Education Project (ASEP) unit are designed for students who have worked through two other ASEP units: Models (ED 068 298) and Charge (SE 016 883). Three other units, Electric Circuits (ED 081 576), Minerals and Crystals (ED 058 059), and Sticking Together (ED 081 573), are considered to provide background…

State and local governments have not been involved in the complexities of cable television interconnection issues in the past despite opportunities. Without their intervention, the result may well be a lack of concern for local public services. However, the entertainment and communications industries will interconnect cable systems without the…

A survey of the membership of the radio-television division of the Association for Education in Journalism revealed professional and academic backgrounds, broadcast industry affiliations, and attitudes toward broadcast education and the news media. Of those responding to questionnaires, almost all were teachers in higher education who had had…

A survey to determine what kinds of programs the nation's educational television stations offer focused on the 56, noncommercial, individually programed educational stations in operation during one week in 1961. Following a description of the methodology of the survey, this report defines terms and categories of analysis and then presents results…

The programs offered by 62 educational television stations in the United States and Puerto Rico during a typical week of broadcasting in 1962 are documented in this report. General information about educational television stations is presented first, and then data pertaining to three audience types--inschool instructional broadcasting,…

The programing of educational television is examined through a survey conducted during one week in 1964 of the 88 educational television stations on the air during that week. The data were analyzed separately for three distinguishable audiences of educational television--the school audience, the college-adult education audience, and the general…

The status of educational television is reported through information about 115 educational television stations from one week in 1966. This report brings together information about instructional television as well as the broad cultural broadcasts that range from the informational to science, news and public affairs to programs about the arts. An…

An analysis is presented of the dangers generated by the corporate ownership of a satellite communications technology powerful enough to centralize and control the flow of information. The first part of the report reprints the transcript of a radio documentary on satellite communications, one of a series of five MATRIX radio programs produced by…

A full understanding of the American school, this author argues, rests on a proper understanding of American society. One of the most powerful influences on society and hence on education is the corporation. The author explores this corporate influence, examining how its values are instilled in society. He then turns to an examination of the…

In the rehabilitation workshop there is insufficient attention to job development oriented to the current and future needs of industry. Many types of work which were done in vocational workshops in contract from industrial firms are now done by automation. Semiskilled labor is thus in diminished demand. There is a twenty year lag in the industrial…

This study was a direct response to a 1970 resolution by the California Community College Board of Governors that all community college districts refrain from implementing any new programs in the area of specialized training for marine technicians until the success of existing programs could be evaluated. A needs assessment survey was conducted to…

Transcripts of the hearings held from March 28-30, 1973 are presented. Following opening statements by Senators Pastore and Baker, texts of the Senate bills S.1090 and S.1228 are published. The former sought to amend the Communications Act of 1934, to extend certain authorizations for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and for certain…

Over the years, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has developed numerous criteria a licensee is obligated to comply with in order to secure or preserve his license. This empirical study, statistical in nature, limits itself to an examination of two of these criteria: first, the mandatory survey of local leaders to ascertain the needs and…