Instructional television, like commercial television, will teach, providing it is believed in, is mediated by respected and believed-in commentators, and always retains the ring of reality. It is also necessary that programs be designed with the teacher in mind. (Author/IRT)

Summarizes television research findings and theories, discusses research problems, categorizes instructional television variables, defines and describes "task relatedness," and presents the results of a survey of instructional media professionals concerning their opinions on instructional television use and their reactions to the concept of task…

Continues the criticism of the Gerbner et al. Study of the cultivation effects of television on viewers. Argues that it makes unwarranted claims and contains methodological errors. (JMF)

Discusses several documents in the ERIC system that deal with the problems teachers face when trying to respond to the issue of television's impact on education and with ways that they can use television to students' educational advantage. (HTH)

Reports that television news coverage of a gubernatorial campaign was relatively light in part because television newspersons were skeptical of the news value of many campaign events. (FL)

Provides a public television executive's diary account of this two-week trip with a delegation of American television chief executives to the People's Republic of China at the invitation of the country's Central Broadcasting Administration. (CMV)

Discusses the services of the Ontario Educational Communications Authority (OECA), which has a nine station TV network, a nonbroadcast videotape distribution system, many interactions with cable companies and domestic satellite transmission, and a databank indexing OECA resources. (JEG)

Characters 1975 "family time" television programs and 1976 programs shown after the "family time" concept had been legally challenged were rated on sex role portrayal. A significant relationship among viewing time, program type, and sex of character suggested that content considered acceptable for children emphasized…

Compares American middle-class children, as representatives of heavy television viewers, and Israeli middle-class children, as representatives of lighter television viewers, to determine the extent to which accumulated television viewing enhances the development of particular mental skills. (PD)

Analyzes the visual content of the televised presidential debates between Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford and determines the differences in how each candidate was portrayed by the television medium. (JMF)

Survey responses from 348 commercial television stations throughout the United States revealed that the broadcasting of television editorials was common practice for 214 stations (61 percent), that local topics were preferred by those that editorialized, and that most stations included station opinion in their editorials. (GT)

Suggests why four prime time television series are worthy of attention in the English classroom and suggests topics for classroom discussion and writing activities based on them. (DD)

Reports that law enforcement news coverage on television network evening news programs is a network preoccupation, that the coverage overemphasizes events in four major cities, that law enforcement agents and institutions are portrayed unfavorably, and that the coverage reflects a desire to entertain rather than a sense of social responsibility.…

A closed circuit television program produced through the facilities of the Waukegan Development Center by retarded adults for retarded adults is discussed. It is explained that the variety format of the show allows for many guest performers and that the show also utilizes prerecorded "remotes" and a musical contest as a part of its weekly…

Two versions of a televised program were produced, designed in accordance with university closed-circuit limitations, basing experimental hypotheses on the production differences. The two versions were identical in their educational objectives and in their factual content. Measures were taken of the effectiveness of each program in the educational…