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Josh dela cruz age12/31/2023 ![]() ![]() Kirkorian and her fellow researchers Ellen Wartella and Daniel Anderson in 2008, since television appeared in homes beginning in the mid-20th century, critics have often expressed concern about its impact on viewers, especially children, who as Kirkorian argued, are "active media users" by the age of three. The cable network Nickelodeon, which was recognized, along with PBS, as a leader in the creation and production of high-quality children's programming, was not required to comply with federal regulations to provide informative or educational content, but did so anyway, before the CTA became law. In 1996, the FCC passed additional regulations, including requiring broadcasters to, in a provision called "the Three-Hour rule", air at least three hours of children's programming per week, between the hours of 07:00 to 22:00, and that they be tagged with an E/I (Educational and Informational) logo so that children and their families could easily find the programs. The CTA set no hourly quotas and left it to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to determine compliance to the law, so little positive improvements were made. ![]() There was little incentive for producing high-quality children's television until 1990, when Congress passed the Children's Television Act (CTA), which "required that networks be held accountable for the quality of children's programming or risk losing their license". According to author Diane Tracy in her 2002 book Blue's Clues for Success, "The state of children's television was pretty dismal". Santomero put it, "a vehicle for toy-based 'commercials' ". By the time Blue's Clues premiered in 1996, there was a large number of TV shows for children, but most of them were violent and designed to sell action toys and other products as co-creator Angela C. Up to that point, PBS was the only source for quality children's television other broadcasters voluntarily set educational standards for their programming and "were expected to regulate themselves", but it led to little change in the quality of children's programs. The show's extensive use of research in its development and production process inspired several research studies that have provided evidence for its effectiveness as a learning tool.īy 1990, parents, teachers, and media experts had been criticizing "the lack of quality fare for children on commercial television" for many years. A revival of the series titled Blue's Clues & You! premiered on Nickelodeon on November 11, 2019. A spin-off called Blue's Room premiered in 2004. As of 2002, over 2 million people had attended over 1,000 performances. By 2002, Blue's Clues had received several awards for excellence in children's programming, educational software, and licensing, and had been nominated for nine Emmy Awards.Ī live production of Blue's Clues, which used many of the production innovations developed by the show's creators, toured the U.S. Regional versions of the show featuring local hosts have been produced in other countries. It has been syndicated in 120 countries and translated into 15 languages. Upon debuting, Blue's Clues became the highest-rated show for preschoolers on American commercial television and was critical to Nickelodeon's growth. Its home-based setting is familiar to American children but has a look unlike previous children's TV shows. Blue's Clues was the first cutout animation series for preschoolers in the United States and resembles a storybook in its use of primary colors and its simple construction paper shapes of familiar objects with varied colors and textures. Research was part of the creative and decision-making process in the production of the show, and was integrated into all aspects and stages of the creative process. Unlike earlier preschool shows, Blue's Clues presented material in a narrative format instead of a magazine format, used repetition to reinforce its curriculum, structured every episode the same way, and revolutionized the genre by inviting their viewers' involvement. The producers and creators combined concepts from child development and early-childhood education with innovative animation and production techniques that helped their viewers learn, using research conducted thirty years since the debut of Sesame Street in the U.S. The show follows an animated blue-spotted dog named Blue as she leaves a trail of clues/paw prints for the host and the viewers to figure out her plans for the day. The original host of the show was Steve Burns, who left in 2002 and was replaced by Donovan Patton (as “Joe”) for the rest of the series. ![]() ![]() block on September 8, 1996, and concluded its run on August 6, 2006, with a total of 6 seasons and 143 episodes. Santomero, Todd Kessler, and Traci Paige Johnson, that premiered on Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. Blue's Clues is an American interactive educational children's television series, created by Angela C. ![]()
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