Children and Television: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and Finance of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, March 16, 1983 |
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... Sesame Street , " where little Cuban boys join hands with little Viet- namese girls to sing about numbers and ABCs . But there are more than enough programs - and commercials - on TV that counteract the effec- tiveness of such shows ...
... Sesame Street , " where little Cuban boys join hands with little Viet- namese girls to sing about numbers and ABCs . But there are more than enough programs - and commercials - on TV that counteract the effec- tiveness of such shows ...
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... St . Paul , SC ETV / South Carolina and WETA / Washington , D.C. The series will premiere on PBS in the fall of 1984 . The ... Sesame Street , Electric Company , Zoom , Once Upon a Classic and others . Now , thanks in large part to CPB ...
... St . Paul , SC ETV / South Carolina and WETA / Washington , D.C. The series will premiere on PBS in the fall of 1984 . The ... Sesame Street , Electric Company , Zoom , Once Upon a Classic and others . Now , thanks in large part to CPB ...
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... Workshop produces Sesame Street , The Electric Company , and 3-2-1 Contact . Of those , the best known product is Sesame Street , which has now been on the air for 14 years . In the production of that , a unique model , 143 Fellows ...
... Workshop produces Sesame Street , The Electric Company , and 3-2-1 Contact . Of those , the best known product is Sesame Street , which has now been on the air for 14 years . In the production of that , a unique model , 143 Fellows ...
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... WORKSHOP Mr. Chairman and members of the Subcommittee : I am Keith Mielke , Associate Vice President for Research at the Children's Television Workshop . We produce SESAME STREET , THE ELECTRIC COMPANY , and 3-2-1 CONTACT . In the ...
... WORKSHOP Mr. Chairman and members of the Subcommittee : I am Keith Mielke , Associate Vice President for Research at the Children's Television Workshop . We produce SESAME STREET , THE ELECTRIC COMPANY , and 3-2-1 CONTACT . In the ...
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... Sesame Street , " " Mr. Rogers Neighborhood , " and the " Electric Company . " Another emerging source is cable , as has been indicated before . In addition to the " Nickelodeon , " the Disney channel , and then the HBO " Fraggle Rock ...
... Sesame Street , " " Mr. Rogers Neighborhood , " and the " Electric Company . " Another emerging source is cable , as has been indicated before . In addition to the " Nickelodeon , " the Disney channel , and then the HBO " Fraggle Rock ...
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Page 105 - ... (1) The facts relied on relate to events which have occurred or circumstances which have changed since the last opportunity to present such matters; (2) The facts relied on were unknown to petitioner until after his last opportunity to present such matters, and he could not through the exercise of ordinary diligence have learned of the facts in question prior to such opportunity; or (3) The Commission or the designated authority determines that consideration of the facts relied on is required...
Page 70 - I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan, and never let you forget you're a man 'cause I'ma woman.
Page 66 - Television, to be blunt about it, is basically a medium with a mind closed to the swiftly moving currents of tomorrow. The networks and stations have erected an electronic wall around the status quo. The test of a communications medium, especially one dependent on survival through use of air waves that are public property, is a willingness and commitment to make its facilities available to...
Page 213 - After 10 more years of research, the consensus among most of the research community is that violence on television does lead to aggressive behavior by children and teenagers who watch the programs.
Page 84 - Association • National Association for the Education of Young Children • National Association of Elementary School Principals • National Council of Teachers of English Single copies of this statement available free with a self-addressed, stamped envelope.
Page 105 - A petition for reconsideration which relies on facts not previously presented to the Commission or to the designated authority...
Page 66 - ... comedies and dramas has actually declined over the last decade. ... In 1981 it was reported in a study dealing with commercial television specifically aimed at children that out of a total of 1 145 characters in the programs studied only 22% were female . . .; only 3.7% of all characters were black . . .; of all characters with speaking parts, 57.5% were white and 33.8% were animals, robots or other non-humans.
Page 185 - The Public Telecommunications Facilities program administered by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration...
Page 138 - I can't tell you how happy I am to hear you say it's so sad. But (hopefully) my prospects are not altogether hopeless; there's one chance for me yet. I'm happy to say I'm extremely delicate, and there's no knowing, the climate may not agree with me, and I may be invalided home? (Very cheerfully.) Jenny.
Page 82 - The Age of Television and the Television Age." Dr. Morrisett's essay stresses the fact that preschool children watch television so much that for them it is equivalent to a full-time job. What we have is a situation crying for our attention. If we want our children to grow up without the prejudice that has stained so many of our generation, and we want the educational achievement of our children to be as great as possible, then why have we ignored the inexpensive chance to reach children over television...