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Kids watching fewer network TV
- Thread starter nomadcowatbk
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And the fact that there are so many cable channels that are aimed at children (Disney, ABC Family, Nickelodeon, etc.), there's now need for them to watch network television. Everytime I go to my son's or daughter's house, I don't think I've ever seen the grandkids ever watching network tv. It's always on one of the Disney channels or one of the Nick channes.
DToTheJ said:
they were phased out because kids aren't tuning into Network TV to begin with
the days of Saturday morning network cartoons and before/after school syndicated cartoons on the UHF indie/Early Fox/WB/UPN/ station have been over for quite awhile, broadcast TV doesn't offer kids anything they'd actually watch, kids don't actually watch E/I programs
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^Stations supported by donations had broadcast educational and informative programs years before the Federal Communications Commission made such programs a requirement for licensed TV stations in the United States. I'm sure many children would watch educational and informative programs from stations supported by donations rather than programs of the same category from network TV stations supported by advertising.
If more network TV stations were to schedule programs that would appeal to folks of any age such as game shows, "Dark Shadows", "Mama's Family", "Garfield and Friends", "Muppet Babies", "The Super Mario Bros. Super Show", "Gilligan's Island", "DuckTales", and "The Wayans Bros." (all identified programs mentioned are my personal favorites), more children would be watching their programming and more of them could become potential customers to advertisers along with their parents and other relatives.
If more network TV stations were to schedule programs that would appeal to folks of any age such as game shows, "Dark Shadows", "Mama's Family", "Garfield and Friends", "Muppet Babies", "The Super Mario Bros. Super Show", "Gilligan's Island", "DuckTales", and "The Wayans Bros." (all identified programs mentioned are my personal favorites), more children would be watching their programming and more of them could become potential customers to advertisers along with their parents and other relatives.
nomadcowatbk said:
They'd watch them if they wern't CRAP! Most of those shows are cheeply and porly made.
Reruns of FAT ALBERT & THE COSBY KIDS can be classified as E/I - heck, they were made available for schools on 16mm and Bill Cosby's Ph D. Doctorate thesis was on the use of the series as an Educational Tool!
Kids these days don't know life without cable or satellite.nomadcowatbk said:
I didn't even know about UHF for the longest time. I was 8 when we finally got it.
I've always thought some E/I programs were cool. Animal Rescue (even though some episodes might be 2000 reruns) has some interesting rescue stories. Some good stories as well on "Wild About Animals" with Mariette Hartley - which has been airing since at least the mid 1990s. KIRO 7 in Seattle had it on forever, until swapping it out for Elizabeth Stanton last year - forcing Mariette to move to KZJO 22.
But yes, some are cheaply made with a low budget. And I don't see any kids ads either. WAY too many direct response ads (Dish Network, A Place for Mom, debt relief companies) during E/I programs.
-crainbebo
But yes, some are cheaply made with a low budget. And I don't see any kids ads either. WAY too many direct response ads (Dish Network, A Place for Mom, debt relief companies) during E/I programs.
-crainbebo
Elizabeth Stanton as in "World's Funniest Moments"?crainbebo said:
"On the Spot" is actually educational. People on the street were asked trivia questions, and then we'd learn the answers. Later, they took out the man on the street and just had a narrator and more actual information.
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