Abstract
Several scholars and lay critics have contended that the fast pace of children's television programming has detrimental effects, but little systematic assessment of the pace of various children's television programs has been conducted. Following a systematic content analysis, 85 top-rated U.S. children's television programs were assigned a pacing index derived from the following criteria: (a) frequency of camera cuts, (b) frequency of related scene changes, (c) frequency of unrelated scene changes, (d) frequency of auditory changes, (e) percentage of active motion, (f) percentage of active talking, and (g) percentage of active music. ANOVA procedures reveal significant differences in networks' pacing overall, between curriculum-based and non-curriculum-based programming, and in the individual criteria.
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