This report examines the amount of quality of television programming specifically designed for children. The evaluation includes results from a national survey over 1,200 parents and 300 of their children to determine attitudes toward children’s television.
Karen Riley
Director of Events and Facilities, APPC
Latino American Preschoolers and the Media
The purpose of this study was to gather information on media uses by and reaching Latino American preschoolers. The study examines how Latino American preschoolers watch television, use computers or play with video games.
The Minnesota Compact and the Election of 1996
The Minnesota Compact recognizes that improving the quality of public discourse requires a systemic solution involving the public, the press, and politicians.
Measuring the Child Audience: Issues and Implications for Educational Programming
This report focuses on the commercial measurement of television’s child audience and the possible effects of this measurement system on the amount of education programming available to children.
Civility in the House of Representatives: An Update
APPC prepared a background report on civility in the House of Representatives for the bipartisan retreat held in Hershey, Pennsylvania during March of 1997.
Free Time and Advertising: The 1997 New Jersey Governor’s Race
This report analyzed thirteen television spots and fifteen free time spots in the 1997 New Jersey governor’s race.
Newspaper Coverage of Children’s Television: A 1997 Update
This report seeks to determine whether newspaper coverage of children’s shows has been affected by new Federal Communications Commission guidelines regarding the airing and labeling of educational programming, and, if it has, in what ways.
“Stand By Your Ad”: A Conference on Issue Advocacy Advertising
This conference, hosted by the Annenberg Public Policy center, explored issues of accountability and disclosure in political advertising on television.
Issue Advocacy Advertising During the 1996 Campaign: A Catalog
This report catalogs one of the most intriguing and thorny new practices to come onto the political scene in many years – the heavy use of so-called “issue advocacy” adverting by political parties, labor unions, trade associations and business, ideological and single-issue groups during the last campaign.
Children’s Educational Television Regulations and the Local Broadcaster: Impact and Implementation
This study was designed to assess the impact of the new Federal Communications Commission regulation involving educational programs for children on the current activities and future intentions of a representative sample of local broadcasters.