The instructional television questionnaire for supervisors and curriculum directors is a rating scale requesting basically the same information and evaluations as the questionnaire for principals. (For related documents, see TM 002 621-625, 627-635.) (KM)

"Sesame Street" has proved to be a successful attempt to use the best of contemporary television entertainment techniques to produce a daily hour-long educational television directed to the preschool population. The success is the result of the leadership of the Children's Television Workshop (CTW) approach to producing the show. Some of…

The end results of the first six months of public access cable television (CATV) channels in New York City were in some ways disappointing. Franchise agreements for each of New York's two CATV systems called for two public-access channels to be in operation by July 1, 1971, one year after the date of the franchise awards. The channels were to be…

The results of a mail survey of pediatricians' views of TV programing policy as it relates to children are reported. (MM)

Describes three varieties of metatelevision: audience awareness and intertextuality or medium-reflexive structure; metagenericism or genre-reflexive structure; and autodeconstruction and ilinx or text-reflexive narrative. Metatelevision relies on the ability of the viewers to recognize artifice. (NKA)

Summarizes results from a series of psychological experiments about how people process information from television and discusses the results in relation to six issues, including size of stimulus units and complexity of television stimuli. (DF)

Argues that the popular view of the superiority of literacy over television is incorrect. Reviews literature contradicting the popular view, analyzes demands television makes on viewer/auditor, emphasizes that children's purposes for viewing influence the amount of mental effort they invest, and discusses implications for school and home use of…

Describes a study on the use of television in a Canadian community just before and two years after inception of television reception. Discusses implications of the results for further research on television in the developing world. (SA)

Suggests that television's imaginative hold on its viewers is produced by its use of primal mythological stories and powerful ritual narratives. (MM)

Can a noncommercial organization be a little bit commercial? An analysis of what current laws and regulations have to say. (Author)

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)

With proper planning and cooperative arrangements for broadcasting and cable communications, junior colleges can effectively extend course offerings and other services to their communities. (RN)

The development of cable educational television at Vincennes University (Indiana) is discussed in terms of the financing, securing of franchises, educational goals and plans for future expansion. (RN)

By phasing out the superheroes of violence, attempting to involve children in constructive projects and reexamining their commitment to children's programming, the major commercial networks are gradually changing children's television. Together with non-commercial television networks they are striving for greater quality control. (Author/RK)

"The present study is an initial attempt to assess the impact of blacks on television for both white and black viewers. Then, among white viewers, our interst is in determining to what extent racial attitudes affect reaction to the greater presence of TV blacks." (Authors)