Is the USA alone having E/I-style requirements?

[mjlarochelle]

As we all know, E/I programming is the law of the land in the United States.

Is the United States the only democratic country in the world where these childrens' programming requirements exist?

In Canada, there are no such requirements, although for a long time CTV stations had a condition of license requiring a certain amount of childrens' programming every week. It was usually buried at 6am on Saturday mornings, and in recent years included mid-80s reruns of OWL/TV, among a couple other shows. Last I heard, CTV was applying to the CRTC to eliminate that requirement, as none of their competitors were bound to similar rules.

 

[1069_KIFR]

Yes.

 

[FreddyE1977]

This was a Bill Clinton brainchild, along with the V-Chip.

You can see where over the past decade and a half they have had a huge
impact on our society, can't you? :

 

[tripinva]

This was a Bill Clinton brainchild

Damn that Bill Clinton, signing the Children's Television Act of 1990 more than two years before becoming President!

- Trip

 

[BMR]

In the UK ITV are considered a 'public service broadcaster' and hence are required to produce a certain amount of childrens programming. In recent years however OFCOM have allowed them to move this to their 'CITV' subchannel, leaving the main ITV channel virtually free of childrens programming.

 

[formeraa]

This was a Bill Clinton brainchild

Damn that Bill Clinton, signing the Children's Television Act of 1990 more than two years before becoming President!

- Trip

+1 As usual, the Republicans decided to "save" our children. Of course, their success has been decidedly mixed.

 

[Mario500]

Damn that Bill Clinton, signing the Children's Television Act of 1990 more than two years before becoming President!

- Trip

The educational and informative programming rules went into effect in 1996, when Bill Clinton was president.

 

[PTBoardOp94]

The educational and informative programming rules went into effect in 1996, when Bill Clinton was president.

Also not the case.

The Bush-era FCC implemented rules for the Act in 1991. There was no time requirement as to how much time was devoted to children's programming, preferring instead to make a vague claim that not programming "enough" to children might jeopardize license renewal. The rules were revised in 1996. The primary changes were the addition of a minimum requirement of three hours weekly, and quarterly filings of Form 398.

 

[azumanga]

The Bush-era FCC implemented rules for the Act in 1991. There was no time requirement as to how much time was devoted to children's programming, preferring instead to make a vague claim that not programming "enough" to children might jeopardize license renewal. The rules were revised in 1996. The primary changes were the addition of a minimum requirement of three hours weekly, and quarterly filings of Form 398.

And then it snowballed from there -- starting with mandating that an E/I bug is used on-screen during the entire program, instead of simply identifying it as such at the start of the show. Then, running announcements in regards to the E/I rule -- announcements before and after each E/I program, announcements on where to go for E/I reports, announcements on changes of E/I programming. And then, a rule that mandates that each digital subchannel carry 3 hours of E/I a week.

It seems that the FCC is influence-proof by the media or its viewers -- otherwise, we would have seen E/I gone long ago.

 

[Mario500]

The educational and informative programming rules went into effect in 1996, when Bill Clinton was president.

Also not the case.

The Bush-era FCC implemented rules for the Act in 1991.  There was no time requirement as to how much time was devoted to children's programming, preferring instead to make a vague claim that not programming "enough" to children might jeopardize license renewal.  The rules were revised in 1996.  The primary changes were the addition of a minimum requirement of three hours weekly, and quarterly filings of Form 398.

I was thinking about the requirement to broadcast a minimum of three hours of educational and informative programming per week going into effect in 1996. I knew the basic rules in regards to such programming were in effect before then.