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In order to demonstrate the need for public television,
the Joint Committee on Educational Television prepared a viewing log of
all commercial broadcasts. They presented the log during congressional
hearings on the need for public Television.
| "… sociologist Donald Horton, of the University of Chicago, and Dallas Smythe, a research specialist from the University of Illinois … monitored seven New York City television stations for more than twelve hours a day, with the help of volunteers, from January 4-19, 1951. The results of this ordeal were eyestrain, recurrent headaches, a low opinion of commercial television, and some incriminating findings. Among the mass of findings was the significant fact that no time was given to educational programs as such; most of the so-called children’s programs bore little or no relation to the tastes and needs of children. The monitoring study proved to be a milestone in television research." (Saettler, 1990, p. 360) |
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