User talk:Tony.M.S.O

Good job. D guz (talk) 21:28, 28 January 2011 (UTC)


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Hi, welcome to Wikipedia. I've been selected as your mentor to help you through your project. As luck would have it, I have a little bit of a background in telecommunications. I worked for AT&T for 10 years. I started as a sales rep with Pacific Bell, was promoted to management in a year and became a software developer for SBC Communications and a fraud investigator. Before the merger with AT&T, I transferred to Nevada Bell as an analyst and finished my career with them running the dispatch center in Reno, Nevada before moving on to bigger and better things. I've been editing on Wikipedia for a little over 5 years. I mostly work on articles related to my hobbies (custom knife collecting, music, animals, martial arts) and a few related to my business as a sportwriter (professional and amateur boxing, mma, collegiate wrestling) and as a firearms and combatives instructor. The writing style on wikipedia is encyclopedic and in what is known as a summary-style; it often reminds me of writing a term paper as opposed to a magazine or newspaper article. I can help you out mostly in the form of finding reliable sources and formatting references. If you have any questions, leave me a message on my talk page or send me an email for any "offline correspondence", that link is on the left hand side of my talk page. I look forward to working with you.--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 21:14, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

The Children's Television Act was suppose to protect children against the “dangers” of television. Instead, it created more problems. After the act was passed, even though there was more programming geared towards kids, TV actually became less educational than it had been before. The reason educational television actually degraded with the enactment of the Children's Television Act is because congress provided little direction towards the quality of the programming, it only said that programming had to be “specifically designed to serve the educational and informational needs of children”. According to a report on unintended consequences of the children Television Act by Andy Levinsky, a 1998 Annenberg report stated that; the number of network shows labeled “highly educational” dropped form 43 percent to 29 percent, since the enactment of the act. As another result of the Children's Television Act, many of the local broadcasting stations dropped their locally produced “educational” shows and bought blocks of already produced kids' shows from the bigger networks. This was largely due to the fact that the rules stated that stations only had to meet the requirement of a minimum of three hours a week of educational programming. Many of the local stations thought in terms of profits and axed their own shows, which were more educational than the syndicated ones, in order to save money and still meet the minimum requirements for re-licensing. In the 1996 update of the act, the FCC stated that “the programming must have a significant purpose. Education need not be the only one”, this goes against the whole reason the act was put forth in the first place, to solely provide educational shows to children, now education isn't the only criteria for a TV show.

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The Children's Television Act was suppose to protect children against the “dangers” of television. Instead, it created more problems. After the act was passed, even though there was more programming geared towards kids, TV actually became less educational than it had been before. The reason educational television actually degraded with the enactment of the Children's Television Act is because congress provided little direction towards the quality of the programming, it only said that programming had to be “specifically designed to serve the educational and informational needs of children”. According to a report on unintended consequences of the children Television Act by Andy Levinsky, a 1998 Annenberg report stated that; the number of network shows labeled “highly educational” dropped form 43 percent to 29 percent, since the enactment of the act. As another result of the Children's Television Act, many of the local broadcasting stations dropped their locally produced “educational” shows and bought blocks of already produced kids' shows from the bigger networks. This was largely due to the fact that the rules stated that stations only had to meet the requirement of a minimum of three hours a week of educational programming. Many of the local stations thought in terms of profits and axed their own shows, which were more educational than the syndicated ones, in order to save money and still meet the minimum requirements for re-licensing. In the 1996 update of the act, the FCC stated that “the programming must have a significant purpose. Education need not be the only one”, this goes against the whole reason the act was put forth in the first place, to solely provide educational shows to children, now education isn't the only criteria for a TV show. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kylesnage (talk • contribs) 01:51, 15 March 2011 (UTC)