Research indicates drug abuse messages are broadcast during low youth and nonprime television viewing hours and contain little specific information. (RB)

A description of the current status of television and radio exposure among five to nineteen year-old British children. (Author)

Supporters of educational television cite impressive statistics to document the claim that ETV is a success. However, the movement is a failure largely because educators cannot accept the new technology. (DS)

Explores the ways in which television newsmen maintain objectivity by drawing upon visual perceptions associated with either sociocultural or role definitions. (DM)

To the many tasks of parents and teachers, television has added a new job: helping children sort truth from fiction on the TV screen. (Author)

Discussion of Chicago's closed circuit television which is used to show children various aspects of reality and present different opinions of famous people. (AF)

Author proposes a national task force to investigate and set forth a series of national goals in terms of the appropriate educational uses of cable television. (Author/MB)

Based on speech given before the Ohio Association of Broadcasters Convention (Dayton, May, 1969).

The ability of 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old children to correctly identify videotaped segments as programs or commercials was examined. Results indicate that, when a task requiring minimal verbal response is used, preschoolers demonstrate an awareness of commercials as distinct from programs. (Author/MP)

Challenges television research which presents an overly critical view of the effects of television viewing on its audience. (JJD)

Of three educational programs, two were manipulated to contain: (1) no humor; or (2) humor in a slow pace, an intermediate pace, or a fast pace. It was found that the presence of humor greatly facilitates selective exposure to an educational television program. (Author/GK)

Data analysis from television-viewing surveys suggests that people are not "glued to the box." Rather, the level of repeat-viewing of television--about 60 percent--suggests that television fills the gap between other activities and that the reason people watch television is that they have "so much time to kill." (PD)

Television can enrich the offerings of formal education; and if overall improvement of commercial television quality is the ultimate goal, then educators should work with parents to regulate children's viewing and to help children develop more discriminating television viewing habits. (CMV)