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Campaign For A Commercial Free Childhood
Campaign For A Commercial-Free Childhood is a national coalition of health care professionals, educators, advocacy groups and concerned parents who counter the harmful effects of marketing to children through action, advocacy, education, research, and collaboration. We support the rights of children to grow up and the rights of parents to raise them without being undermined by rampant commercialism. CCFC is headquartered at the NonProfit Center in Boston.
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Study: Skinny Women Better for Bottom Line
Researchers Find Thin Models Make Viewers Like Brands More, but Themselves Less
Harry Potter and the Pint of Liquid Courage
As Harry Potter fans crowd movie theaters to catch the latest installment in the blockbuster series, parents may be surprised by the starring role given to alcohol. In scene after scene, the young wizards and their adult professors are seen sipping, gulping and pouring various forms of alcohol to calm their nerves, fortify their courage or comfort their sorrows.
Disney Takes Web Surfers to the Lab to See Which Ads Work
Like other television companies, Disney Media Networks which includes ABC, ESPN, ABC Family and Disney XD has long conducted intense consumer research about its programming. But now, as the Web and DVRs uproot the way people consume television, and thus rip apart the industrys business model, the unit is adding advertiser research as a fresh focus of intense inquiry.
Retailers Lure Parents of Powerful Tweens
Retailers struggling to attract shoppers wherever they can find them are discovering the best way to a young girl's purse is through her parents.
Bubble Babies
The Kiddie-Safety Industrial Complex wants me to danger-proof my house, yard, and car to within an inch of my child's life. Why I'm not buying what they're selling.
Game Ad Ban Challenged
Suit targets policy vs. promotion of violent titles.
Back-to-school pitches go social with Facebook, Twitter
In just one year, social media has become ubiquitous in every serious back-to-school marketing program, says digital marketing guru Chad Stoller.
Scene Stealer: The Web Is Pouncing on Hollywoods Ratings
Are the ratings that Hollywood gives its movies becoming irrelevant?
Rockefeller Will Push For Government Oversight Of Violent Media Content
Spoke at hearing on revisiting Children's Television Act in a digital world
FCC To Revisit Kids TV Rules
The FCC is opening an inquiry into its children's TV rules.
CBS News to Target Students
Channel One will co-produce 12-minute newscast
Genachowski To Testify On Kids TV Law
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski will be the headliner at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing July 22, which is billed as a "rethinking" of the Children's Television Act in the digital age.
Your Name Here: Springfield School Auctions Naming Rights for Football Field
On a field outside Jonathan Dayton High School in Springfield, nearly everything seems for saleeven the flag pole.
Congress Investigates Radio Programming on School Buses
Congress has ordered a Federal Communications Commission review of BusRadioa radio programming system that is heard each day on 10,000 school buses in 24 states.
How Spongebob Became an $8 Billion Franchise
Beloved TV Character Celebrates His 10th Birthday, Iconic Status
Hits at the Box Office Are Creating Retail Blockbusters
Sales of toys tied to big Hollywood movies such as this summer's 'Transformers' sequel could reach an all-time high in 2009
For Firstborns, Secondhand Fits the Bill
Experts say the childrens market is just playing catch-up to a radical consumer shift taking place across all luxury sectors. But some say the new attitude reflects a broader change in perspective when it comes to conspicuous consumption for young children.
Kideos.com Gets Into the Picture
As more children spend their free time online, a digital media entrepreneur is looking to establish a Web video venue designed and screened especially for kids.
Hasbro Ready To Cash In On Toys Tied To Transformers Movie
Hasbro Inc. (HAS) is revving up for bigger sales in the toy aisle thanks to the blockbuster Transformers movie sequel, with merchandise sales topping the 2007 product lineup by as much as 25%, analysts say.
Hasbro Online Game Promotes Upcoming G.I. Joe Motion Picture
Called "Join the Team," the promotion is aimed at generating a new generation of global fans among kids ages six to 12 years old in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Mexico, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States, Kathleen Seguin, the director of global promotions for Hasbro, said.
