The author focuses attention upon the ways which CATV can be a useful financial, as well as programming, resource in education." (Editor)

Describes a project at Mississippi State University in which broadcast journalism students were given an opportunity to participate in a weekly news program aired on a church cable station. (HOD)

Discusses programs of the New Christian Right, an evangelical group which applies pressures designed to affect censorship and to cause boycotts of products advertised on "offensive" television programs. Methods used in current censorship activities are highlighted. References are provided. (EJS)

Discusses the expertise and equipment necessary to produce and measure a video signal and image, including three video monitoring instruments--the studio monitor, the Waveform monitor, and the Vectorscope--and the use of video test signals. Ten references are listed. (EAO)

Concludes that the advent of an independent television station had little apparent effect on the programing of three network stations in the same market. (FL)

Content analyses of 14 hours of children's television programing were conducted to determine messages concerning cross-racial relationships. Onscreen cross-racial interactions comprised just one percent of the children's programing sampled. Black/White relationships were neither more nor less likely than White/White relationships to involve…

Examines the extent to which violence contributes to the size of the audience for a television program. (FL)

Concludes that viewing religious programing on television is positively correlated to the need to know oneself better and negatively correlated to the need for entertainment. (FL)

Presents a taxonomy of formal features of television and examines ways in which these features are used in current productions for children. Coding categories for formal features include action, pace, visual events, and auditory features. Concludes that commercial producers stress formal features as much or more than content. (PD)

The author describes the efforts made by the British Broadcasting Corporation to ensure that its educational programs are of maximum value to adult educators and to the wider public. (Author/CT)

Traces the children's television advertising policy dispute from 1970 to the termination of its most recent phase by the Federal Trade Commission in 1981. Suggests that concerned groups might have more impact on children's advertising policy by working outside the regulatory administrative process. (PD)

Reports that the television program "Roots" evoked positive reactions from British viewers in terms of their perceived attitude change toward Blacks and in particular, American Blacks; their personal and community identification in the matter of race integration; and the reaffirmation of their ideas about the negative aspects of slavery.…

During December 1980 a five-member delegation from the Beijing (Peking) Broadcasting College's Communication Education Department visited comparable U.S. university departments. Author interviewed Zhu Yujun, only woman in the delegation, who lectures on film production in the department of television production. (PD)

Two college English teachers disagree on the importance of teaching critical television viewing skills and of using the content of television programs as subject matter for English classes. (RL)