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Please see eCME , the Center for Media Education's online newsletter, for news of current developments in research, industry trends, technology, and policy for new media, children, and youth. The Children's Television Act is intended to improve the quality of children's educational programming on broadcast television. In response to subsequent developments, this special edition of InfoActive Kids provides updated information on this programming. Additionally, the new report examines the websites that accompany children's shows, the commercial time limits on such programming, and the latest academic research concerning the overall quality of educational programming for children. Only in the shrill oversimplification of congressional debate, admittedly, could a field as complex as public broadcasting possibly be reduced to a single character on a single daytime program, but the identification of the entire noncommercial enterprise with its flagship children's series is understandable.