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Children's Attitudes Toward Television Advertising: A State Of The Art Review, Heidi L. Haskins
Children's Attitudes Toward Television Advertising: A State Of The Art Review, Heidi L. Haskins
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The issue of children and advertising came to light in the 1970s and has continued to be a topic of much discussion ever since. In started in the 1970s when the Action for Children's Television petitioned the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to eliminate all commercials from children's TV programs. Then in January 1973, the major networks agreed to reduce commercial time in children's weekend programs from 16 minutes an hour to 12 minutes an hour. In 1991, the Better Business Bureau estimated that children in the U.S. watch an average of 3.5 hours of television every day, and the average …