Knowra Children's television Children's television Television programming made primarily for children, combining entertainment, education, or both. Its formats and content are shaped by children’s development, family viewing, and rules governing media for minors.
Educational television : Television programming designed to teach knowledge or skills alongside or apart from entertainment. Many children’s programs make learning an explicit goal through lessons, demonstrations, or embedded instruction.
Howdy Doody : An American children's television program featuring a marionette, broadcast from 1947 to 1960. Its early success established the appeal of regularly scheduled, child-focused television.
Children's educational television : Children's television designed to support learning through instruction, stories, or guided activities. It applies television’s reach to literacy, numeracy, science, and social learning.
Sesame Workshop : The nonprofit educational organization that produces Sesame Street and related media. Its research and production model linked children's television to formal educational goals.
Children's programming block : A scheduled stretch of television programming aimed at children, often grouped by age or genre. Broadcasters use programming blocks to organize children’s shows into recognizable viewing destinations.
The Children's Hour : A British television program for children first broadcast by the BBC in 1946. Its postwar launch marks the early development of dedicated children's television in Britain.
Public service broadcasting : Broadcasting organized to serve public needs rather than solely maximize commercial profit. Public-service mandates can sustain children's programming that commercial schedules might undersupply.
Media literacy : The ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media in different forms. Children's programming has become material for teaching how media communicates and persuades.
Child development : The physical, cognitive, social, and emotional changes that occur from birth through adolescence. Age-related abilities and needs influence the pacing, vocabulary, and themes of children’s programs.
Sesame Street : An American educational children's television series that premiered in 1969. Its research-based design demonstrated that mass entertainment television could support early learning.
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