A National Educational Television Program Service

“Backyard Farmer” is a Cooperative Extension (CE) television program that airs one night a week on the Nebraska Educational Television Network (ETV). “Backyard Farmer” is a one-hour program which airs throughout the lawn and gardening season from approximately April 1 to September 1 each year. This program combines a live call-in format, along with mailin questions and samples to be answered by the panel. In addition they discuss timely topics which are illustrated by videotapes and live demonstrations. The panelists are specialists in horticulture, entomology, plant pathology and agronomy (weed science). Slightly over two-thirds of the Nebraska households (69%) were familiar with “Backyard Farmer”. Backyard Farmer has been watched in 49% of Nebraska households. Thus Backyard Farmer is viewed in approximately 270,000 households. Viewers are more likely than non-viewers to have sought advice from Cooperative Extension in the past two years. Although the total number of viewers in the urban area was higher than in the rural area, there was a higher proportion of viewers in the rural area. Nearly half of the “Backyard Farmer” viewing audience (47%) was under age 45.

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Teaching Pruning through Television

HortScience ◽

10.21273/hortsci.32.4.592b ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 32 (4) ◽

pp. 592B-592

Author(s):

R.F. Polomski ◽

D.W. Bradshaw ◽

R.H. Head ◽

G.L. Reighard

Keyword(s):

Cable Television ◽

Educational Television ◽

Television Program ◽

Extension Agents ◽

County Extension Agents ◽

Woody Ornamentals ◽

County Agents ◽

Tree Fruits ◽

Extension Program ◽

Television Studio

Two interactive pruning televideoconferences were produced, each comprised of videotaped segments and in-studio pruning demonstrations. In the first televised conference, viewers received step-by-step instructions for pruning four small and tree fruits. Twelve woody ornamentals were pruned in the second conference. The “how-to-prune” segments were performed by Extension personnel and videotaped by University Electronic and Photographic Services. Each of the 2-hour conferences was broadcast live from a classroom television studio with a total of 30 in-studio participants and 178 county extension agents, Master Gardeners, and residents at downlink sites statewide. A toll-free number was available throughout the conference to encourage two-way communication. These televideoconferences culminated in the creation of a library of “how to prune” videotapes, which are available to county agents, Master Gardeners, or residents. Also, several of these segments were aired on C.U.E. Magazine, a monthly, half-hour Extension-sponsored cable television program, and on Making It Grow!, a bimonthly, hour-long Clemson Extension program that is broadcast on SC-Educational Television.

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For a new educational use of radio and television in Latin america

Comunicar ◽

10.3916/c25-2005-012 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 13 (25) ◽

pp. 87-90

Author(s):

Gerardo Ojeda-Castañeda

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Computer Science ◽

Latin American ◽

Educational Television ◽

Television Program ◽

Educational Institutions ◽

Digital Networks ◽

Technological Convergence ◽

Institutional Initiatives ◽

Latin American Countries

Due to the development of so many different educational experiments in radio and television with more than 40 years of existence in many Latin American countries, the appearance of new institutional initiatives done by most of the educational institutions of Latin America and, facing the innovating approaches of technological convergence of telecommunications, the audiovisual means and computer science, with the possible complementarity and interrelation of radio, television and Internet in new broadband IP digital networks, it becomes necessary to raise new lines of future and intervention to encourage the Televisión Educativa Iberoamericana (TEIb) (Latin American Educational Television), Program of Cooperation of the Latin American Heads of States and Governments Summit, and its managing association, the ATEI. Debido al desarrollo de tantas y diversas experiencias de radio y televisión educativas con más de 40 años de existencia en muchos países iberoamericanos, la aparición de nuevas iniciativas institucionales que realizan la mayoría de las instituciones educativas de Iberoamérica y, ante los innovadores planteamientos de la convergencia tecnológica de las telecomunicaciones, los medios audiovisuales y la informática, con la posible complementariedad e interrelación de la radio, televisión e Internet en las nuevas redes digitales de banda ancha IP, se hace necesario plantear nuevas líneas de futuro y actuación para relanzar la Televisión Educativa Iberoamericana (TEIb), Programa de Cooperación de las Cumbres Iberoamericanas de Jefes de Estado y de Gobierno, y su Asociación gestora, la ATEI.

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