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educational television

American  

noun

  1. television of informational or instructional content.


Etymology

Origin of educational television

First recorded in 1950–55

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Bafta chair Sara Putt said: "Horrible Histories has transformed traditional ideas of what educational television should be."

From BBC Oct. 23, 2024

PBS, which for decades has been at the center of educational television for children, has little preschool programming depicting climate change.

From New York Times Oct. 4, 2022

Yet of the all the songs he wrote, the one probably best known to the public was composed for the children’s educational television series “Schoolhouse Rock!”

From Washington Post Nov. 19, 2021

Fred Rogers, a lifelong member of the Republican Party, believed that educational television had to deal with difficult subjects that children were certain to face in their ordinary lives.

From Slate May 23, 2019

If you are in the business of educational television, this is a critical difference.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

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