Children spend much of their free time watching television and having contact with television influences the way children perceive the world around them. The United States debates whether program content is appropriate or not and also how television influences a child’s attitude, knowledge, and behavior. Television has changed throughout the years starting in 1950s to present day.
In the 1950s, children’s shows were beneficially in bringing the family together. Most of children’s shows were broadcasted during the afternoon and evening. But during the mid-1950s programs had aired Saturday morning. This started One Saturday morning shows, which still are on today.
The 1960s started animation shows. In the 1960s they reduced costs which led to limited action animation techniques. This cleared the appeal of cartoons to children, changed scheduling of programs, and the change of Saturday morning cartoons became complete. Some popular animated shows of the 1960s were The Flinstones, The Jetsons, Bullwinkle, and Space Ghost.
The 1970s have been considered as a video mosaic in which shows incorporated a number of segments under regular shows. Some of the shows were The New Super Friends Hour or Scooby Laff-a-Lympics. These helped with shows to increase audience flow across the entire morning.
In the 1980s children’s shows were influenced by the “television revolution” as the growth of cable and VCR began to erode audiences. Cartoons remained important, but live action shows began to increase. Cable networks such as Nickelodeon and Disney, devoted mostly to children. Other cable networks such as Discovery, Learning Channel, USA, TBS, the Family Channel, and Lifetime grew in having more shows that were programmed towards children. They produced live action shows, which included game shows, puppet shows, magazine format news and variety programs, as well as live action drama adventures shows.
The Children’s Television Act was influenced in the 1990s. This was because the educational shows were joining available programming. Since the 1990s, eight of the nine Peabody Awards for children’s programs were for informational or educational programs.
As the years have passed, people can see the change and growth of children’s shows. Children’s shows have improved and have become educational as well as teaching healthy ways to live a better life.
For more information about the changes in children’s television shows, go to this website:
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/C/htmlC/childrenand/childrenand.htm
In the 1950s, children’s shows were beneficially in bringing the family together. Most of children’s shows were broadcasted during the afternoon and evening. But during the mid-1950s programs had aired Saturday morning. This started One Saturday morning shows, which still are on today.
The 1960s started animation shows. In the 1960s they reduced costs which led to limited action animation techniques. This cleared the appeal of cartoons to children, changed scheduling of programs, and the change of Saturday morning cartoons became complete. Some popular animated shows of the 1960s were The Flinstones, The Jetsons, Bullwinkle, and Space Ghost.
The 1970s have been considered as a video mosaic in which shows incorporated a number of segments under regular shows. Some of the shows were The New Super Friends Hour or Scooby Laff-a-Lympics. These helped with shows to increase audience flow across the entire morning.
In the 1980s children’s shows were influenced by the “television revolution” as the growth of cable and VCR began to erode audiences. Cartoons remained important, but live action shows began to increase. Cable networks such as Nickelodeon and Disney, devoted mostly to children. Other cable networks such as Discovery, Learning Channel, USA, TBS, the Family Channel, and Lifetime grew in having more shows that were programmed towards children. They produced live action shows, which included game shows, puppet shows, magazine format news and variety programs, as well as live action drama adventures shows.
The Children’s Television Act was influenced in the 1990s. This was because the educational shows were joining available programming. Since the 1990s, eight of the nine Peabody Awards for children’s programs were for informational or educational programs.
As the years have passed, people can see the change and growth of children’s shows. Children’s shows have improved and have become educational as well as teaching healthy ways to live a better life.
For more information about the changes in children’s television shows, go to this website:
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/C/htmlC/childrenand/childrenand.htm
Children's television shows have really changed drastically. They went from live actors, to animated characters, and now they have a little of both. There are a lot of shows that are on the air today that wouldn't have been on 10 years ago. I used to watch ninja turtles and garfield. Now kids watch high school musical and hannah montana. I guess that times changes and so do the television shows that children are interested in.
ReplyDeleteI used to watch One Saturday Morning, with all the kiddie cartoons of the timee, all the time along with The Flinstones and The Jetsons.I loved all of those when I was younger!And I agree with Ethan that times are definitely changing. Kids today do not watch the same kind of cartoons as we did when we were little. It's kind of weird, however, the shows for them today are sometimes more educational than what we were watching.
ReplyDeleteI loved the Jetsons, Flinstones and all of those "old" cartoons. They were what my brothers and I "lived" for growing up. We spent all of our time outside saving TV time to watch our favorite shows. My dad never wanted us to watch any of them because they "sucked out our brains" and we, being kids, just laughed at him. To us, they were the best, to him, like they are to us now, they were cheesy and not educational.
ReplyDeleteI definately miss waking up Saturday mornings to the cartoons playing on ABC and Cartoon Network. I remember when my dad first told me that he grew up watching The Jetsons and The Flinstones and I couldn't believe it because he was "Sooo OLD!" And I'm not going to lie, watching them on channels like Bommerrang and Cartoon Network now, really brings me back to those good ole' childhood days.
ReplyDeleteYour blogs always bring up some good shows that I used to watch! :) I didn't know that The Flinestones had been around for that long though. I've noticed the change in children's shows. I used to watch PBS and Cartoon Network, but as I got older, I enjoyed Nickelodeon and Disney. I think those networks are aimed more for a little older children. All in all, children's shows are usually educational or teach them some sort of morality lesson!
ReplyDeleteIt was interesting to see how the focus of children’s television shows has changed over the past few decades. You make a good point when you say that the television does shape the brains of children. I also think that it is important to monitor the stuff they put on the television for young children. There is a certain time when children soak up everything they see and hear, and having educational shows for children to watch on Saturday mornings is a great way to keep kids informed and knowledgeable.
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