... Auditory change and sound effects elicit attention, and sound effects also maintain attention (Anderson & Lorch, 1983, p. 19). For children, he found that men's voices maintain inattention to the TV while children's voices elicited visual attention (Anderson, 1985, p. 189). Indeed, Anderson et al. (!979, p. 355) found that "visual attention and auditory comprehension are positively correlated-. 3. ... Attentional Inertia Anderson (1985, p. 190) acknowledged that though confirming research is lacking, he believed that attention-inattention cycles are reasonably descriptive of adult TV vi...

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... Goes Wild is a famous evening sport entertainment show, airs for half an hour at 7 pm weekdays on New Zealand nationwide free-to-air TV channel- RPIME TV (Prime TV, 2006). It is a "locally made" show, first aired on Monday 26th of June 2006 and hosted by two main presenters: ... French word for type or kind (Lealand & Martin, 2001, p. 27)- it is clear that they are both catagorised under television's broad sport genre. TV shows under this category are programmes that cover stories about sport and sport events which considered to be "relevance" to the viewers' assumed " ... casual and ...

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... North Communications" TN Media, states that "It's the one kind of programming that's new and fresh" She goes on to say "Look at today's TV programs vs. those of 10 or 20 years ago. Audiences no longer tune in to "lowest common denominator programming"" (Koerneer, 2001). Producers all over the ... the imagination. This show provides a guaranteed truth, unlike the shows we find on television today. Jonathan Rauch writes an article stating the difference between Reality TV and Reality. This article speaks of a show that was broadcasted on TBS. This show is called "War Games" Rauch speaks abo...

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... deceived our nation? Has the media created a message that it is all right to define what was considered "old fashion values?- Violence on TV affects how children view themselves, their world, and their people. In fact, experts say that viewing violence can have lifelong harmful effects on a ... of the world around them (Children, Family and Youth Consortium). Since we live in a violent society, we are constantly hearing debates that seeing TV violence, particularly children, desensitizes us so we accept real violence more off handily that even triggers real violence. In addition, "telev...

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... do not totally affect the younger viewing public as much. Each rating point that a television show receives represents 1,022,000 households and is a percentage of the nation's estimated 102.2 million TV homes. This seems to stand on its own and prove that the American public enjoys viewing the more violent or less moral television shows. In relation to this, the American ... programming they would view on their individual television set. The ratings include, TV-Y, for programs that are suitable for "all children-, TV-Y7 are for programming that is suitable for children over the age of 7...

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... watching violent shows. Children who view shows in which violence is very realistic frequently repeated or unpunished are more likely to imitate what they see (TV 2). This is visible in a study done at Penn State University. About one hundred preschool children were observed before and after watching television. Some ... admitted that he was the murderer. He now sits behind bars in a state prison in Florida where he will spend his childhood, teenage years and adult years (TV 2). This is another sad case on how in some way television had an affect on a child's reactions and aggression. A ...

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