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...sexually suggestive or explicit shows will have to wait till 10 p.m., when the kids presumably are asleep. "It is fanciful to believe that the vast majority of parents who wish to shield their children from indecent material can effectively do so without meaningful restrictions on the airing of broadcast indecency," the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said. Viewers probably won't notice any difference. The ruling doesn't apply to the cable television, which parcels out most of the material in question. And over the airwaves, nearly all shows now scheduled in the forbidden timeframe...
...forces of commercial television are overwhelming the true believers in quality children's programming. Peggy Charren, founder of the now defunct advocacy group Action for Children's Television, says, "There are more choices than when I began act 27 years ago because of cable and the vcr, but broadcast television has just gotten worse. What's so sad is that's all that's available to poor children, and they are the ones who need the most help." Newton N. Minow, the former fcc chairman who called TV a "vast wasteland" in 1961, argues in a new book (see excerpt...
...look at their recently announced fall prime-time schedules reveals that the broadcast networks have all but abandoned the "family hour" between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. Such kid-oriented shows as Full House have been canceled, and adult comedies like NBC's Friends, CBS's Cybill and ABC's Roseanne will now air at 8 p.m. Network programmers point out that they can no longer afford to aim prime-time shows strictly at children, since advertisers spend most of their dollars targeting the 18-to-49 age group. Says ABC television network president David Westin: "There was a time...
...governing radio and television broadcasting, the Federal Communications Act of 1934, gives broadcasters free and exclusive use of broadcast channels on condition that they serve the "public interest, convenience and necessity." Because the act did not define what the public interest meant, Congress, the courts and the fcc have spent 60 frustrating years struggling to figure it out. To me the answer is clear. The public interest meant and still means what we should constantly ask: What can television do for our country, for the common good, for the American people? Most important, I believe, the public interest requires...
...money generated by a spectrum fee on broadcasters could go a long way. Today annual gross television-broadcasting revenues in the U.S. are conservatively estimated at about $25 billion; by itself, a bare minimum of 1% of broadcast-television revenues would pay annually for $250 million of children's programming; 3% would provide $750 million, a sum with which Americans could transform not only children's television but childhood itself...