Sen Markey Leads Colleagues in Renewed Defense of Strong Children’s Educational Television Programming Rules

Sen Ed Markey (D-MA), author of the Children’s Television Act, led eight of this colleagues in calling on the Federal Communications Commission to maintain essential elements of the “Kid Vid” rules, which ensure access to children’s education programming on over-the-air broadcast television, in accordance with the Children’s Television Act. In the letter, the Sens highlight the need to preserve existing rules requiring broadcasters to air three hours of regularly scheduled educational children’s programming a week on their primary stations. “In light of comments recently filed in response to this proposal, we write to encourage you to ensure that all children, regardless of their families’ income level or access to high speed internet, continue to have access to the educational programming they deserve,” write the Sens. “In particular, we urge you to preserve existing rules requiring broadcasters to air three hours of regularly scheduled educational children’s programming a week on their primary stations.” Also signing the letter are Sens Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Gary C. Peters (D-MI), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Ron Wyden (D-OR)