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Animal Planet - Animal Planet's web site includes information on your favorite tv shows, animal cams, crocodile hunter, animal stories, pets and more!
Broadcast.com - If you have audio capabilities on your computer, you should visit a live broadcast site like this one. More than 500 live radio and TV stations may be accessed. The AudioBook Channel and CD Jukebox offer 3,100 full-length CDs and over 1,600 full-length audiobooks. In addition there are hundreds of live special events scheduled every week! This site is in the parents part of the book because some of the programs are about health topics and relationships, which you need to preview for your kids.
Cartoon Network - The home of cartoons online. The best cartoons from the past and best new cartoons, on TV and on the web.
Center For Media Education - Here's an interesting statistic. By age 70, most Americans will have spent ten years of their lives watching TV. Kids watch an average of three to four hours of TV every day. According to this site, "By the time children complete elementary school, the average child will witness more than 100,000 acts of violence on TV, including 8,000 murders. These numbers double to 200,000 acts of violence and 16,000 murders by the time they graduate from high school." What effect does watching this violence have on kids? Read about it at this site. Did you know the Federal Communications Commission requires TV stations to air three hours of educational and informational programming per week? This site tells you how to keep local TV stations accountable to the rules. There are also sections on how to teach kids to evaluate TV commercials and how to safeguard Internet privacy.
Directtv - Launched in the summer of 1994, DIRECTV has become America's top digital television service! Access more than 225 digital-quality channels. All with picture and sound so sharp and clear you'll find it hard to believe that you're watching the same TV set. Looking for your favorite DIRECTV channels? You'll find them here! them in our lineup here!
Emmy Awards - Academy of Television Arts & Sciences - Have you ever heard the song by Bruce Springsteen, "Fifty-Seven Channels and Nothin' On"? Sometimes nothing good seems to be on TV, but many good shows are available. The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences selects some of the best programs and gives the winning shows and actors an award called an Emmy. To see who the most current winners are, check out this Web page.
FamilyNet - FamilyNet is for the more than 70 million people who feel the family is the most important part of their lives. They are hard-working people who are looking for a wholesome alternative to standard television fare. FamilyNet offers creative programs featuring traditional family values. FamilyNet supplys quality family entertainment mixed with a variety of inspirational programs, much of which is original!
NASA Television - How would you like to see pictures live from space? NASA Television has a slew of video cameras taking pictures of Earth, of weather in the vicinity of the Kennedy Space Center, and more. This site explains how you can watch over satellite TV or via several Web page locations. If there is a mission going on, you can view the shots as they come in. Want your NTV? It's out of this world!
Roots - During the winter of 1977, a powerful miniseries appeared on television. It was a dramatization of Alex Haley's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Roots. The series of programs traced Haley's ancestors back to the days of slavery. The compelling story made it the most-watched miniseries of all time, with 130 million viewers during its initial telecast. Although Americans had learned about slavery in school, this was the first time it was portrayed in such close and personal detail, and adults and kids all over the country couldn't wait until the next show to see what happened to Kunta Kinte and the other characters. This online exhibit gives a chronological background and introduction to slavery in America as well as a listing of inventions by African Americans.
The Definitive Laura Ingalls Wilder Pages - Whether you're a fan of the book or the television series, you need to visit this little house on the cyberprairie to find out everything about Laura Ingalls Wilder and her life. You'll be able to track her travels from the big woods to the prairie, chronicled in her book series about Ma, Pa, Mary, and, of course, herself. You can visit the Heritage Sites, which are now located in the places Wilder describes in her novels.
Viewers for Quality Television, The Forum for Discerning Viewers - Viewers for Quality Television, since 1984, a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating the public about quality TV. A 15-year old positive viewer organization with no agenda other than influencing the commercial networks to retain their critically-acclaimed quality series rather than canceling them because of insufficient Nielsen numbers.
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