A case study of one metropolitan Library's experience with cable television communications is reported in this article. (Author)

Describes a high school TV journalism activity: producing a weekly 30-minute local newscast on cable television. (SP)

Author discusses the need for and offers suggestions in educating prospective teachers in the study of school broadcasting. (MB)

Describes a program in Chicago in which clusters of ethnically similar and geographically close ghetto schools have pooled their resources to create instructional television programs more closely related to the needs of their students than are the programs available through the district wide ITV system. (LS)

Role playing and traditional instruction were used to examine whether young children can be taught the intent of television commercials. Both treatment groups of children, ages six to seven, experienced significant increases in understanding of commercials. (Author/MBR)

A Public Broadcasting Service television series uses national and international current events to stimulate critical analysis in high school students. Among facets of critical analysis and supporting teaching strategies examined are determination of perspective, evaluation of logic, analysis of supplementary materials, projections into the future,…

Describes an investigation of the effect of using cable television in an inservice training program for elementary school teachers. Results indicate a strong relationship between the learning of new ideas for classroom use and both viewing context and levels of feedback, as well as the communications structure within the organization. (EAO)

Highlights the Emory Medical Television Network's role in continuing education for medical professionals. The network is self-supporting and broadcasts three hours of live, full-color programing Monday through Friday to 34 medical institutions in the Atlanta, Georgia area. In addition to regular broadcasting activities, a videotape library has…

The Manitoba Telephone System has established an experimental integrated home information system called Project Ida in a trial group of 100 homes. Discussed here are the origin, current operation, and future prospects of this system, which includes videotex, fire monitoring, telemetering, and educational television. (Author/JJD)

Discusses the presentation of married, formerly married, and single male and female characters in prime time television dramas, specifically in relation to sexual stereotyping, occupational status, and regularly-emphasized personality traits. A brief review of similar research is given and the method of the study is summarized. (JL)

Describes the Commercial Update and Retrieval System (CURS), part of an instructional resource program implemented at Virginia Tech that enables students to locate, categorize, critique, or redesign any of 1,000 television commercials which were previously stored on 16mm film reels. The systems software and its instructional implications are…

Reports some responses to a national survey concerning the broadcast activities of high school students. (JL)

The management, administration, production, and broadcasting of educational television are discussed and evaluated with respect to its use in elementary education, training of teachers, and out-of-school education in the Ivory Coast during the 1970s. (CHC)