Paper describes the ATS-6 satellite which is being used for a year-long series of education and health experiments. (Author/HB)

A brief overview of the various community work programs utilizing video techniques in Great Britain. (HB)

Teachers should give their students some classroom explanations of the great events that convulse the nation and deeply affect us. Article made the point that children need a chance to ask questions, express their anxieties and test out their perceptions of the world around them. (Author/RK)

A television-based experiment emphasizes reading instead of satisfying teachers. (Author)

Describes a journalism methods course in advertising in which college students observed and analyzed videotaped commercials produced by sixth graders. (RB)

Presents a report on experience with examples of exercises from Lesson 5 "Old friends" (Grade 9), Lesson 18 "In the Stadium" (Grade 9) and Lesson 5 "Get acquainted with Leningrad!" (Grade 10) of a Russian television course. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Article describes new techniques that have been developed for community access at a cable television station and suggests ways they could be adapted for overseas application. (Author/HB)

A report on the role states play in the regulation of broadcasting in the United States. (Author/HB)

A research report on management decisions of group broadcasters. (HB)

Semiotics addresses the question of how people derive meaning from a text, and meaning stems from considering phenomena as signs and from looking at the relationships among these signs. Thus, a semiological analysis of the television series "Cheers" reveals that the title suggests happiness, good spirits, and companionship. The show…

This overview of interactive videodisc technology is designed to assist educators in finding the appropriate equipment and software for any specific application. The handbook may also serve as a starting point for many educators who know nothing of the technology and assist them in deciding whether this technology is worth pursuing as an…

The issue of whether to "standardize" or "specialize" in international advertising campaigns is important because it may help determine whether each audience should be addressed separately or whether advertising agencies should attempt to address the collective global consumer. Print and television advertisements for American…

Focusing on ABC, NBC, and CBS's evening news broadcasts from January 1984 through February 1986, a study examined network news coverage of environmental risk--defined as manmade chemical, biological, and physical agents that create risk in the indoor, outdoor, and occupational environments. Using the Vanderbilt University "Television News…

Only one Pittsburgh television station (WPXI) chose to show the entire event when R. Budd Dwyer, Pennsylvania state treasurer, shot himself at a televised news conference. Within 12 hours, the focus of the story had shifted from Dwyer himself to the media's coverage. Was WPXI wrong to show the suicide? Were the other stations wrong to curtail the…