The appearance in everyday life of new technologies for mass communication and for communication between individuals calls for a reappraisal of the role of live-image broadcasting as a factor in culture and education. (Author)

A discussion of the prospects of widespread use of color television in England. (HB)

This document reports on the impact of television food commercials on children under 12, focusing specifically on how commercials influence children's food preferences and concepts, how they affect children's knowledge of nutrition, and how they contribute to obesity. Part I is a compilation of short excerpts from relevant testimony before the…

This paper outlines the use of confirmatory factor analytic techniques to assess the reliability of television program checklists as indicators of television exposure, to estimate the stability of television exposure over time, and to detect patterns of television content preference. A causal model incorporating these three properties was…

Describes how NOVA filmmakers developed a storyline about San Francisco Bay and captured it on film. Presents the criteria for topic selection by NOVA and the reception the program has had by viewing audiences. (GS)

Engineers with access to USC's or Stanford's interactive instructional network can take part in live university courses while at work. (Editor)

The three television networks, acting under severe restrictions imposed by the Iranian government, all provided comprehensive coverage of the hostage crisis. A study was conducted to examine what, if any, salient differences arose or existed in this coverage from November 5, 1979, until January 15, 1980. A research procedure combining qualitative…

Arguing that the threat to privacy in the new technological era of information processing and transmitting via cable television is a real one, this paper proposes that the threat can be minimized through effective legislation. The paper first looks at cable television privacy concerns and examines several studies concerning privacy, then reviews…

An analytical model for the grammatical description of educational television is illustrated by an examination of what television does to a traditional plot in a dramatic narrative. Segments from dramatic narratives presented on educational channels were videotaped, and a program of observation and recording of elements for video programs was…

Defining audience feedback systems as technical configurations that allow viewers in their own homes to respond electronically to television programing via telecommunications networks, this report examines research into the use of audience feedback systems as a means of reducing the cost and labor of eliciting viewer opinions and attitudes to a…

A study investigated the dimensions of gratifications sought (GS) and gratifications obtained (GO) from two competing network television programs--ABC's "Good Morning America" and NBC's "Today"--in terms of (1) the differences between the dimensional structure of GS and GO for the viewers of each separate program and (2) the…