Describes a small television network set up by four southeast Iowa school districts that uses microwave transmission to allow full interaction between a teacher in one school and students in that school and three others. Notes the savings realized and gives the reactions of students, teachers, and administrators. (RW)

The study reported analyzes the science content of the network nightly television news programs broadcast for a one-year period by the three major television networks. (Author/MK)

Describes several studies using television and television technology to assist in teaching reading and reading skills. (JMF)

Reports that schizophrenic-labeled persons consistently rated television programs as closer to reality than did a sample of nonschizophrenic respondents. (FL)

Among the results of an analysis of production techniques used for United States and international television commercials are: (1) cuts are the most common form of transition in both national and international television commercials, and (2) U. S. commercials use proportionately more special effects than do international commercials. (GT)

Content analyses of the nightly news programs of the three commercial television networks for 1976 revealed (1) the generally low priority given to news about the broadcast media, (2) the variability of cross-network reporting performance, and (3) a preponderance of reports on the media's role in politics. (GT)

Reports results of part of a long-range project studying cultural indicators. Suggests that television viewing is associated with a cultural "mainstream" that tends to absorb or assimilate groups that otherwise diverge from it, and that the salience of certain real-life circumstances is likely to boost television's cultivating potential. (JMF)

Reviews the events surrounding the Federal Trade Commission's efforts to regulate television advertising aimed at children. Discusses the fairness of children's advertising and considers the question of who should make decisions regulating children's viewing: the family or the government. (GC)

Describes the relationship between television networks and the major political parties brought about by the broadcasting of the presidential conventions. Discusses the networks' role in convention scheduling and programing, as well as their ability to emphasize superficial emotion rather than political decisions. (JMF)

Reviews major technological factors which will influence future public television broadcasting to the home. (BK)

Discusses the continuing debate about the effects of televised violence on viewers, particularly children, in terms of aggressive behavior. The two opposing views, the psychologistic and the relational, are each supported by research which, in turn, affects the use of censorship. (JMF)

Discusses the influence television has on children's language development and lists television resources that illustrate children's literature, vocabulary and reading skills, mathematics, and study skills. (HTH)

Presents material available for use that ties in reading and television and asks questions about the future of TV in reading instruction. (MKM)

Critiques Neil Postman's book, "Teaching as a Conserving Activity," which focuses on television's transformation of the information environment and the implications of this development for educational policy and practice. Points out some serious flaws in Postman's argument. (JMF)

Notes that print is available on television in such quantities that viewers have to be "television readers." Discusses the amount of print available through public and private television systems in the United States and other parts of the world and the attitudes of reading professionals to television. (FL)