Nine preschool children viewed a videotaped story at regular intervals in a longitudinal study of their understanding of a televised narrative. Observations focused on children's attention to the story, their reactions during viewing, and their postviewing story reconstructions. It was found that the children sensed certain interpersonal conflicts…

LIGHTING IS A VERY IMPORTANT ASPECT OF CLOSED-CIRUIT TELEVISION OPERATION. BETTER TELEVISION LIGHTING IS OBTAINED THROUGH CAREFUL PLANNING AND PURCHASING. SEVERAL IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT THE PRACTICAL EDUCATIONAL APPLICATION OF LIGHTING IN A CLOSED-CIRCUIT TELEVISION STUDIO ARE PRESENTED. IN EARLY STAGES, LIGHTS WERE USED FOR PORTABLE ARRANGEMENTS.…

THE BACKGROUND, USE, ORGANIZATION, EQUIPMENT, CAPABILITIES, PLANNING, AND PREPARATION FOR STUDIO TELECASTS, AND THE EVALUATION OF THE TV CENTER AT AIR UNIVERSITY WERE GIVEN. THE TV CENTER WAS ORGANIZED UNDER THE AIR UNIVERSITY (AU) LIBRARY TO PRODUCE AND DIRECT THE TELECASTS FOR THE THREE AU SCHOOLS EQUIPPED TO RECEIVE THEM. TELEVISION WAS USED TO…

Visual field theory was examined insofar as television viewers' perception, retention, and preference for still visual images were concerned. The purpose of the experimental investigation was to determine whether the specific shapes, colors, and placement of visuals within a picture frame affected viewers' abilities to perceive, describe, and…

This publication contains two reports of research on news media. The first is a review of more than 100 studies conducted between 1955 and 1977 that indicate that both television and newspapers are used in a generally complementary manner, although they do compete with each other for diversionary time. Among the conclusions noted in the report are…

Approximately 1,200 adults were interviewed in a study designed to determine the identity of the nonviewers of television news, the differences between local and network news nonviewers, the sources of news used by nonviewers, and the attitudes of nonviewers toward keeping informed of the news. The findings revealed that about one-third of the…

This manual presents production guidelines and suggestions for use by commercial, public, and educational broadcast facilities that seek to provide television interpreting for the hearing impaired. Topics covered include a brief overview of the need for television services for this audience and the use of closed captioning and sign language to…

This study reports a content analysis of 1976-1977 commercial television programing for incidents of alcohol, drug, and tobacco use and sexual behavior. The analysis included one episode of each prime time and Saturday morning dramatic series, comprising 77 programs and 58 hours of television viewing. A concurrent survey among 300 fourth, sixth,…

The author, a producer for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), discusses the nature of the problems involved in producing several educational television series intended to advise parents on the subjects of child rearing and child development. (LS)

Electronic media transmit instructional material that is protected by copyright law. Under the present Copyright Act (U.S. Code, Title 17, 1909) teachers may use material in the "public domain," and excerpts from copyrighted works under the judicial doctrine of "fair use." Inter-institutional transmission of live performances…

This paper describes the proceedings of a conference on children and television, "Worldwide Fine Tuning for Children," held on 11 February 1977 by the University of Miami Department of Communications. The purpose of the conference was to survey the world of television as experienced by children and to explore how communications experts,…

All of the television camera shots in the three Ford/Carter presidential debates were studied according to type, frequency, and duration to determine whether the images presented by the camera could have influenced the audience's perception of the candidates. According to the debate rules, each candidate was allowed three minutes to answer a…

This paper reviews research on creativity, children's television-viewing habits, and television's effects on children; rates two children's programs for creativity content; and describes the results of creativity tasks presented to 3-year-olds. In Section I, various definitions of creativity (as related to person, process, product and environment)…

The purpose of this study was to contrast and compare television effects across three types of students at a high school in the Canadian Arctic--Euro-Canadian students, Inuit students resident in Frobisher Bay, and Inuit students from isolated settlements. Television had recently been introduced to the area by means of a satellite re-broadcast…

Contained in this report are the results of a telephone survey conducted among 961 households in the television market for Bowling Green, Ohio. The purpose of the survey was to determine the characteristics of the viewing audience for WBGU. WBGU--owned by Bowling Green State University--became the public television station for a 19-county area in…