The present investigation extended the methodology to investigate the effects of viewed aggression on groups of two and four children. The present study employed a 2 x 2 x 3 factorial design, using as independent variables sex of the child, group size (two or four children), and cartoon condition (aggressive cartoon, nonaggressive cartoon, and no…

Data collected by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Center for Educational Statistics (U.S. Office of Education), and the National Association for Educational Broadcasters (NAEB) were used to compile the reports in this directory. As well as listing the major components of the educational telecommunications system in the United…

Public broadcasting and educational television are struggling to define themselves. Public broadcasting represents our common search for meaning through our efforts at forming and experiencing images. The brief declaration for "freedom" and "imagination" written by Congress into the public broadcast law forms a symbolic…

A summary of the research in five different countries on how children respond to the prize winning program of Prix Jeunesse 1968, "The Scarecrow," is presented in the report. A first part briefly describes and then offers findings across all the studies: that the children in all countries liked the program, but perhaps not all would have selected…

The implications for American politics, public affairs broadcasting, and new reporting under different sorts of cable television (CATV) systems are considered in detail by this report. The authors believe that a contract carrier system is the most desirable, since it makes broadcast time most freely available and prevents the cable franchise owner…

Examines major television programming content trends by reviewing prime-time entertainment series that premiered during the fall season of each year from 1953-74, and concludes that audiences are being offered fewer and fewer content choices. (MH)

The history of the TV College of the City Colleges of Chicago is briefly reviewed, trends in the educational television field are identified, and recommendations for other educational television services are made. Issues discussed include: interinstitutional cooperation, the "talking face," and the necessity of varied programming. (NHM)

Large corporations are seeking access to the media and fostering media diversity through a variety of alternatives, including the establishment of a fourth network, support for cable television, and concern with the creative use of a broad mix of media. (JMF)

Suggests that individuals may differentially identify with and learn from media presentation in terms of whether the images are structured as real or fictional events, and that, independent of the inherent real or fictional structure of the given events, the television format has a fictionalizing capacity in and out of itself. (JMF)

Television, with its undeniable impact, is here to stay. Educators should learn to use the medium to their advantage instead of constantly decrying its content. (Author)

Multidimensional scaling is used to quantify the relative appeal of television characters as behavior models for children. (Author/STS)

Attempts to assess any significant change in the degree of sex-role stereotyping in television commercials in recent years. (MH)

Reprints Ann Christine Heintz's "Take a Media Rorschack," a television quiz designed to break the ice in teachers' or community meetings, from "T-Vision," the Journalism Education Association's Television Commission Newsletter. (KS)

Discusses how consumers interpret the complex stimuli presented by different television shows and by alternative products that might be advertised on such shows. (KS)