Describes how one school district came to own a television station and how use of that station has evolved over the years. (IRT)

We must reexamine our often total reliance on the studio as the only source for instructional television production. The porta-pak provides an alternative. Tips are provided for successful field production. (Author/STS)

A 15 minute weekly news show on closed circuit television is used to disseminate information to employees on all three shifts at the Waukegan, Illinois Developmental Center, which services the severely and profoundly developmentally disabled. (STS)

Argues that aesthetic or literary approaches to television provide an essential corrective to recent emphases on the ideological dimensions of modern media. Defines television as a contemporary American instance of "consensus narrative," a cultural formation or institution in which society's central beliefs and values undergo continuous…

Studied influence of television as a leisure activity in adult women between the ages of 36 and 50 (two groups: one, sports-oriented, the other, not sports-oriented). Nonsports-oriented subjects watched television for passing of time, companionship, and information; the other group viewed television for current events. Leisure activity was direct…

Focuses on Walt Disney and Shelley Duvall, mass media producers who furnish children with fairy-folklore. Compares and contrasts what Disney and Duvall do and do not convey through their fairy-folk tales. (MS)

Discusses the history and development of religious broadcasting. Suggests that the growth and structure of religious fare is the result of a good fit between the needs of the evangelical community and the dynamics of the television medium. (MS)

The appropriate educational uses of television and/or teleconferencing present similar but separate problems for adult learners. Adult educators should consult experts on planning and using these technologies before rushing ahead with them (JOW)

Reports that two of the three major television network newscasts had the same lead story more than 90 percent of the time and that all three had the same lead more than 40 percent of the time. (FL)

Because Blacks have been shown to watch more television than whites, some researchers have concluded that Blacks deem television to be more credible than whites. National survey data for four years between 1975 and 1982 confirm this belief, but the results do not explain why or whether this pattern continues. (KH)

Captioned television news and services are used to promote learning in current events for students at St. Mary's School for the Deaf. Students have also helped produce their own class news videotapes. (CL)

A chronology of television in college football is presented from the first televised college football game (a University of Pennsylvania game) to the Supreme Court ruling declaring that the National Collegiate Athletic Association contracts violate antitrust law. (MLW)

Briefly describes the development of antennas in the prebroadcast era (elevated antenna, selectivity to prevent interference between stations, birth of diplex, directional properties, support structures), as well as technological developments used in long-, medium-, and short-wave broadcasting, VHF/FM and television broadcasting, and satellite…

Discusses the development of a telecommunications program at Madonna College (Michigan). Using this program as a model, offers procedural guidelines on how other institutions can utilize local cable television systems for extended delivery of curricula. (JN)

Analysis of prime-time television portrayals of nurses and physicians (1950-80) shows extreme levels of both sexual and occupational stereotyping. TV nurses are 99 percent female; TV physicians are 95 percent male. The TV image of female professional nurses is of total dependence on and subservience to male physicians. (Author/CMG)