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A public service announcement (PSA) is a message in the public interest disseminated by the media without charge to raise public awareness and change behavior. Oftentimes these messages feature unsettling imagery, ideas or behaviors that are designed to startle or even scare the viewer into understanding the consequences of undergoing a particular harmful action or inaction (such as pictures ...
Accompanied by a time announcement, this phrase is typically used as a direct introduction for the originating station's late-evening newscast, typically at either 10:00 p.m. or 11:00 p.m. [1] While the phrase itself had appeared in newspapers as early as the 19th century, usage of it in broadcasting started in the early 1960s following the ...
Pages in category "Public service announcements of the United States" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A public service announcement or PSA is a non-commercial "advertisement"—typically on U.S. or Canadian radio or television, broadcast for the public good. Subcategories This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.
The last logo for Concerned Children's Advertisers, before the name change. The previous logo of CCA, which appeared in older PSAs. Companies Committed to Kids (French: Entreprises pour l'essor des enfants) (formerly known as Concerned Children's Advertisers) was a Canadian non-profit organization based in Toronto, founded in 1990 by former chief executive officer Sunni Boot and former ...
On May 22, 1993, TBN re-branded its children's block as Kids Club and introduced two new shows to the block; Curtain Climbing Kids Club and Kids Like You. The public service announcements and "support Christian television" interstitials were replaced with newer interstitials targeted to kids, as well as scenes from the Curtain Climbing Kids ...
The More You Know program won a Peabody Award in 1993 for serving as "a model national public service campaign to provide a range of useful information to its vast television audience." [ 1 ] The campaign has featured a range of guests over the years, including Amy Poehler , Joan Rivers , Jack McBrayer , Steve Harvey , Anjelica Huston ...
Time for Timer is a series of seven short public service announcements broadcast on Saturday mornings on the ABC television network starting in 1975. The animated spots feature Timer, a tiny cartoon character who is an anthropomorphic circadian rhythm, the self-proclaimed "keeper of body time."