Schoolhouse Rock and other short-form programming on words of encouragement in the children's TV comments of Walt Disney Co. and CapCities/ABC.(Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable, October, 1995 by Stern, Chris

Schoolhouse Rock and other short-form programing won words of encouragement in the children's TV comments of Wait Disney Co. and CapCities/ABC. "An entire generation of young adults can recite words of the preamble to the Constitution by humming the tune to ABC's Schoolhouse Rock segment," Disney said, arguing that the FCC not exclude short-segment programing from its definition of "core programing." CapCities/ABC also asked that the short segments not be excluded from the core-programing definition.

Another group of commenters including Peggy Charren, the Center for Media Education and several other education groups--resisted that the core programing be regularly scheduled and publicized in advance. The group also repeated calls for a one-hour daily...

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