One of the groups said it had used Google’s tools to run a targeted ad campaign this month on children’s channels. Google has said it did not allow such ads on videos made for children.
Ayo Davis continues to shape her senior exec team at Disney Branded Television. Davis has promoted Alyssa Sapire to lead content for Disney Junior, overseeing such programming for preschoolers as Mickey Mouse Funhouse and Doc McStuffins. In her new role, Sapire will serve as the creative steward for Disney Junior content, including development, current and acquired programming for both linear and streaming.
For several years now cable operators have been arguing that the FCC needs to recognize the shift in children’s video consumption from “‘traditional linear television’ to unregulated online programming,” and deregulate accordingly. The 1990 Children’s Television Act set limits on ads in children’s programming and the FCC in 2004 limited the display of website addresses during children’s programming. NCTA told the FCC this week, as it did back in 2018, that it was time to eliminate those restrictions.
Moonbug fine-tunes the world’s most popular video programs for the youngest of viewers. Parents already know that resistance is futile.
Conservative media outlet The Daily Wire is planning a significant push into kids entertainment, with what it says will be “a minimum of $100 million” investment over the next three years. The move, executives say, is in response to Disney’s positioning on Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill, known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Disney has begun to speak out about the bill in response to backlash that it didn’t proactively denounce it initially. “Americans are tired of giving their money to woke corporations who hate them,” said Daily Wire Co-CEO Jeremy Boreing in a statement.
The streaming giant is expanding its relationship Dr. Seuss Enterprises with a deal for five new animated preschool series and specials. The agreement covers projects inspired by the works of the beloved children’s author including Horton Hears a Who, The Sneetches, Wacky Wednesday and One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish Blue Fish and beloved characters like Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose.
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Children’s streaming service Toon Goggles is partnering with Giant Pictures, digital distribution partner to Hello Einstein Studios to launch a Baby Einstein free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) channel within the […]
Kids and family programming deals are surging as streaming companies look to double down on content that serves a highly-engaged cohort of younger users. Children’s content used to be perceived as a tool to stop users from canceling streaming accounts. Now it’s a key driver for new user growth.
NEW YORK (AP) — Mister Rogers’ neighborhood is expanding. In rare welcome news of sprawl, PBS Kids is releasing a new puppet-led series called “Donkey Hodie,” inspired from characters in […]
In a letter sent Tuesday to YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, the U.S. House Oversight and Reform subcommittee on economic and consumer policy said YouTube does not do enough to protect kids from material that could harm them. Instead it relies on artificial intelligence and creators’ self-regulation to decide what videos make it on to the platform, according to the letter.
YouTube will soon limit the data it collects on videos designed for children to comply with a federal privacy clampdown, pleasing consumer advocates but delivering a potential financial blow to creators of free kids’ content.
The first episode of Sesame Street — sponsored by the letters W, S and E and the numbers 2 and 3 — aired in the fall of 1969. The show was designed by education professionals and child psychologists with one goal: to help low-income and minority students aged 2-5 overcome some of the deficiencies they had when entering school.
Google announced on Wednesday that it would be creating a separate YouTube site to host videos for children, following accusations that the video-streaming site had been violating children’s privacy laws. The site rolling out this week will be a web version of the YouTube Kids app that has been around since 2015, Google said in a blog post on Wednesday.
Netflix acquired the StoryBots children’s media brand as the world’s largest streaming service prepares to challenge rival Walt Disney Co.’s kid-friendly online platform scheduled to start in November.
FCC Commissioner Michael O’Rielly is spearheading a review of the FCC’s children’s television requirements that he hopes to launch in the summer and complete by year’s end.
O’Reilly Targets FCC’s 3-Hour Kid Vid Rule
FCC Commissioner Michael O’Rielly: “[T]he commission needs to reconsider the ineffective and burdensome requirements currently imposed on our nation’s broadcasters to air a certain amount of educational and informational children’s programming on a weekly basis, colloquially referred to as Kid Vid.”
Kids Fine Shows FCC Still In Enforcement Biz
The FCC announced a consent decree with WMBC Newton, N.J., where the licensee, Mountain Broadcasting, agreed to pay $17,500 for failing to identify “core” educational and informational programming directed to children with the required “E/I” symbol on the programming itself. This programming was, according to the consent decree, run on the station’s multicast streams — stations having an obligation to run at least 3 hours of educational and informational programming on each of its program streams.
The commission is urged to “protect programming and advertising safeguards for children’s TV.”
FCC Moving KidVid Reports To LMS
Attention, all you Class A and commercial TV licensees. The FCC has announced that the next time you go to file a quarterly Children’s Programming Report (that would be Form 398), you’ll have to do it through the commission’s work-in-progress Licensing and Management System (LMS).
Litton Entertainment and its partners have been honored by the Parents’ Choice Foundation, the nation’s oldest nonprofit consumer organization dedicated to quality children’s media, with 16 awards. Litton’s awarded programs […]
The FCC today issued a Notice of Apparent Liability for Better Life Television for failing to file Children’s Television Programming Reports for three quarters for its KTVC Roseburg (DMA 139), […]
The FCC has fined Sorensen Television Systems (the licensee of KTGM Tamuning, Guam) $9,000 failing to file Children’s Television Programming Reports with the FCC for nine quarters. The commission also […]
The FCC has renewed the licenses of three TV stations held by large broadcast groups, rejecting petitions to deny filed by a citizen’s organization arguing that the children’s educational and informational programming run by these stations was not sufficiently educational or informational to meet FCC requirements. The licensees were able to present evidence that these programs did meet the requirements. However, the FCC warned stations to be careful in their assessments of the educational nature of children’s programs.
Viacom’s Nickelodeon plans to launch a video subscription service this spring, joining the chase for younger viewers who increasingly are watching programming on digital devices.
The CW this October will debut a 10-show, five-hour Saturday morning educational/informational block called One Magnificent Morning from Litton Entertainment with such shows including Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan: Family […]
FCC Detective Work Leads To Renewal Fines
If there had been any doubt that the FCC’s Media Bureau would check a television station’s online public inspection file to confirm the truthfulness of certifications made by the licensee in a pending license renewal application, that doubt has been eliminated. In a notice released Dec. 3, the commission has proposed a $9,000 fine against the licensee of two Michigan TV stations on the grounds that each station had filed their Children’s Television Programming Reports late, and that they failed to report those violations in responding to one of the certifications contained in their license renewal applications
Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, an animated show built around the fictional young offspring of Rogers’s original puppet characters, including Daniel Striped Tiger, is aimed at a narrow demographic, 2-to-4-year-olds. It starts today and will air twice daily on most PBS stations.
Series feature both animated and live-action segments, all designed to focus on developmental needs and healthy lifestyles.
Noncom KNPB To Cut 2.5 Hours Of Kids Programs
Over the next three TV seasons, Longneedle Entertainment will gradually supply two of the three hours of children’s educational programming required by the FCC. It starts this fall with On the Spot, a trivia game show.
