Center for Media Education: Next ACT in kids advocacy. (Action for Childrens Television)(Special Children's TV Report) From: Broadcasting & Cable | Date: July 25, 1994| Author: Jessell, Harry A. | COPYRIGHT 1994 Reed Business Information. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The Center for Media Education (CME) in Washington, DC, was formed in 1991 to lobby for more education-based and less commercially-oriented television programming. The group continues efforts begun by the Action for Children's Television, which has folded. CME has put pressure on television stations to conform to the 1990 Childrens TV Act and has exposed stations that have not conformed.

If the FCC requires TV stations to air minimum amounts of educational children's programing, cr...

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