educational television
Informative TV programming
Educational television is programming designed to teach rather than merely entertain.
The term often refers specifically to public broadcasting stations and networks that air instructional content, documentaries, and children's programming: Sesame Street became the gold standard of educational television.
The label distinguishes such content from commercial entertainment, though the line between education and entertainment has blurred considerably.
- PBS KidsPublic educational children's channel
- Reading RainbowPBS children's literacy program
- Mr. RogersBeloved PBS children's host
- instructionalIntended to educate
- informativeProviding useful knowledge
learning · documentary · distance learning · edutainment · enlightening · academic · telecourses · children's media · didactic · pedagogical · after-school specials · puppet shows · flipped classroom · interactive learning · remote teaching · visual storytelling · infomercial · Khan Academy
- rural schoolsrural school, small class sizes, rural district, one-room schools, one-room school
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Filmed unscripted programming
game shows · soap operas · sitcoms · talk shows · variety shows
educational televisiontrash TV
Sensationalized lowbrow programming
Jerry Springer · Maury · Jersey Shore · The Bachelor · propaganda
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