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Television Policy in Canada

Regulation of Radio Broadcasting

Established in 1976 the Canadian Radio-Television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) was created in Canada as a governing agency to regulate broadcasting and telecommunications content. In order to help Canadian companies compete at home against the significant number of American broadcasters operating in the Canadian marketplace, the CRTC adopted a content quota system. Included was the requirment that the musical content being broadcast on privately owned Canadian radio stations be 60% Canadian each day (based on defined standards of what constitutes Canadian music) and mandating that the national public broadcaster, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) 60% Canadian productions

Regulation of Television Broadcasting

In addition, a group of private Canadian television broadcasters formed the Children’s Broadcast Institute (in the 1980s it would change its name to the Alliance for Children and Television). It established a number of self-regulatory policies regarding Candfian youth audiences while working with the Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) and the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council. Targeting three main areas of content, these policies focused on ethics, violence and stereotyping and as a result were endorsed by the CRTC. The CAB`s content regulations included removing violence as a central theme, avoiding special effects that were not essential to a plot line and new efforts to avoid gender stereotyping. In 1987, the CAB created the Voluntary Television Code on Violence which determined that the depictions of violence must be evaluated within the context of an individual program, intended audience and scheduled time-slot.

V-chip

The CRTC went a step further in 1997 by requiring that all television sets include V-chip technology. The V-chip is a tool that reads the government regulated content classification of a given television program and allows one to determine what shows may be seen on their television and which ones are blocked. The V-chip is a tool used in many countries. J.M. Balkin illustrates the significance of the V-chip when he stated, “The promotion of the V-chip as the solution to this cultural anxiety is at once appropriate and perverse. It is appropriate because it uses technology to fight the perceived effects of technology.”

Regulation of Advertising

In addition to the regulation of content on children’s television, government policies have also influenced advertising during children’s programming. The CRTC endorsed Broadcast Code of Advertising to Children mandates that no more than four minutes of commercial messages may exhibited during a half hour children’s television broadcast. This regulation includes advertising within the content of the programming itself and dictates that commercials must be consistent with the moral and ethical standards of Canadian society.

Effects of Television on Children

Cognitive Development

Television can influence the spirituality and identity of children and adolescents viewing it. Graham Rossiter reveals that talk shows like Maury or The Jerry Springer Show, that feature people in conflict being brought on stage for public confrontations, are comparable to medieval morality plays. Despite not being targeted at youth audiences, children are still able to access these shows and in turn associate the television audience’s judgments of guests on the show with their own. Rossiter feels these viewing habits encourage stereotyping and “in your face” moments. A Canadian study on violence in television found that it continues to be glorified across a variety of programming. The study also concluded that more than one third of violent programs have “bad” characters who go unpunished and that very few programs emphasize an anti-violence theme.

Physical Development

A big concern for the relationship between television and youth is the effect of excessive screen time and childhood obesity. A Clare Hume article concludes that children who have more than three hours per day of screen time are at an increased risk of being classified as overweight.

==Notes==

In the later half of the nineteenth century the television managed to infiltrate almost every home in developed western nations, successfully surpassing the radio as the home entertainment system the television replaced fire side chats with Saturday morning cartoons. However, the one eyed monster has a much stronger influence on its audience than it’s predecessor, for young and impressionable children the television plays a large role in the shaping of those individuals mentally, behaviorally, and physically. This article will aim to interpret the affect of television on Generation X, analyzing televisions affect on youth from the 1980’s to the millennium.

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Hi Stuart, I added many links, headings and subheadings and made the writing a bit more efficient. I recommend you add citations for some of your sentences that require them and that currently do not have them. Otherwise, more research is needed in all areas but you have a basic solid framework with which to work in. -Mike Lidstone

I think an article on Television and Generation X specifically will be too argumentative and not fit the mandate of Wikipedia. I think your focus is appropriate, but consider adding this to the article Social Aspects of Television rather than creating a new article. Sources are on track. Cliomania (talk) 19:58, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Looks good so far, just something that you could fix, you first go and abbreviate Canadian Radio-Television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) but then you don't have the abbreviation after Canadian Association of Broadcasters. I didn't notice it at first until I got to CAB in the article so just something to be aware of if you are going to be using abbreviations. BrowniePointz (talk) 00:50, 26 March 2016 (UTC)