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Title of Planned Core Program #1
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Origin
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CAKE
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NETWORK
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Regular Schedule
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Total Times to be Aired
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SATURDAYS: 9:00AM
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13
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Length of Program
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Age of Target Audience
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30 minutes
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From
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To
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8 years
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12 years
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Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming
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CAKE is a live-action show-within-a-show about a teenage girl by the name of Cake, who, with the help of three friends, produces a cable access show. The series is designed to provide the viewers with two integrated levels of educational and informational experiences. On one level, each episode provides actual instruction regarding specific activities, with hands-on examples related to the design and use of various fabrics, the making of clothes, the crafting of useful home, school, play, and household items, and other forms of creative expression. The other level in the episode provides an opportunity for the viewers to learn about social and emotional themes such as the value of honesty, the importance of personal worth and self-esteem, the meaning of friendship, the value of having a healthy life-style, and other prosocial concepts that are developmentally appropriate for this age-group. This program is specifically designed to further the educational and informational needs of children, has educating and informing children as a significant purpose, and otherwise meets the definition of Core Programming as specified in the Commission's rules.
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Title of Planned Core Program #2
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Origin
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HORSELAND
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NETWORK
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Regular Schedule
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Total Times to be Aired
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SATURDAYS: 9:30AM
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13
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Length of Program
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Age of Target Audience
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30 minutes
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From
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To
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9 years
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11 years
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Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming
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HORSELAND is an animated series about five girls and two boys who live in spectacular countryside that houses a farm called Horseland. Each of these main characters has a special horse whose personality is similar to its owner's. Horseland and its unique approach of integrating the personality of the main characters and animals serve to reinforce prosocial themes. Horseland is also a "coming of age" series in which viewers experience and learn from the social interactions, hopes, dreams, and even fears of this group of culturally diverse adolescents. From this background, the experiences of sharing, caring, compromise, friendship, respect, and competition emerge to provide the young viewers with social and emotional guidelines for better understanding many of the life-lessons they need to learn as they grow and develop. This program is specifically designed to further the educational and informational needs of children, has educating and informing children as a significant purpose, and otherwise meets the definition of Core Programming as specified in the Commission's rules.
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Title of Planned Core Program #3
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Origin
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DINO SQUAD
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NETWORK
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Regular Schedule
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Total Times to be Aired
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SATURDAYS: 10:00AM
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13
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Length of Program
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Age of Target Audience
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30 minutes
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From
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To
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9 years
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11 years
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Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming
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DINO SQUAD is an animated program focusing on a group of five ordinary, but diverse teenagers, who, through an unusual accident, become contaminated with a substance that allows them to morph from humans into various species of dinosaurs. Their science teacher, with full knowledge of their parents and with a few special abilities of her own, becomes their mentor. Her tasks are to help them maneuver through the experiences of the high school years, with its social, emotional, educational, recreational, and teenage angst, and to guide them as they stand up for justice against the forces of evil. Each episode draws on a set of planned educational and informational themes related to specific pro-social concepts, life-lessons, and/or selected groups of facts drawn from a variety of fields of study. This program is specifically designed to further the educational and informational needs of children, has educating and informing children as a significant purpose, and otherwise meets the definition of Core Programming as specified in the Commission's rules.
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Title of Planned Core Program #4
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Origin
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SUSHI PACK
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NETWORK
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Regular Schedule
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Total Times to be Aired
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SATURDAYS: 10:30AM
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13
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Length of Program
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Age of Target Audience
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30 minutes
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From
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To
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9 years
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11 years
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Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming
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SUSHI PACK is an animated series featuring an unlikely group of superheroes consisting of four small pieces of Sushi, and a tube of mustard. Through an accident involving an irradiation process, these characters are brought to life, and dedicate themselves to fighting crime, injustice, and helping those in need. The themes integrated into the episodes of SUSHI PACK are associated with the teaching of certain positive social behaviors and skills to children. The major educational objectives of the program are to have young viewers learn some important life-lessons related to such traits as loyalty, honesty, and self-confidence, and such behaviors as teamwork problem-solving and cooperation. The program seeks to help children understand that these are every day pro-social attitudes and behaviors that can be modeled and used by them at home and among their friends. This program is specifically designed to further the educational and informational needs of children, has educating and informing children as a significant purpose, and otherwise meets the definition of Core Programming as specified in the Commission's rules.
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Title of Planned Core Program #5
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Origin
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STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE
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NETWORK
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Regular Schedule
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Total Times to be Aired
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SATURDAYS: 11:00AM
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13
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Length of Program
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Age of Target Audience
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30 minutes
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From
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3 years
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6 years
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Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming
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In this series, Strawberry Shortcake, a curious, self-confident leader, narrates stories of her and her friends' adventures in the richly-imagined world of Strawberry Land. Using her many positive qualities, Strawberry helps her friends, who share her values but not necessarily her ability to take a broader view, to see beyond their own self-interest. The themes of the stories are designed to have particular relevance for young viewers, focusing on such issues as friendship, fear, self-confidence, sportsmanship, trust and shyness. The pro-social messages flow naturally from the narrative, as the characters experience concrete (positive and negative) consequences of their actions. This program is specifically designed to further the educational and informational needs of children, has educating and informing children as a significant purpose, and otherwise meets the definition of Core Programming as specified in the Commission's rules.
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Title of Planned Core Program #6
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Origin
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CARE BEARS: ADVENTURES IN CARE-A-LOT
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NETWORK
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Regular Schedule
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Total Times to be Aired
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SATURDAYS: 11:30AM
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13
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Length of Program
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Age of Target Audience
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30 minutes
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From
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5 years
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7 years
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Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming
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Care Bears are a group of funny, colorful bears, each with a special way of caring and a belly badge, which unleashes that bear's special caring power. The bears use their caring hearts and their belly badges to help each other and to thwart the evil plots of Grizzle, a bad bear with his own flying lair. Each Care Bears episode is designed to foster children's "emotional intelligence," defined by psychologist Daniel Goleman and other researchers as skill in five areas: knowing one's emotions; managing one's emotions; motivating oneself; recognizing emotions in others; and handling relationships. This program is specifically designed to further the educational and informational needs of children, has educating and informing children as a significant purpose, and otherwise meets the definition of Core Programming as specified in the Commission's rules.
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Title of Planned Core Program #7
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Origin
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TEEN KIDS NEWS
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SYNDICATED
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Regular Schedule
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Total Times to be Aired
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SATURDAYS: 8:30AM
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13
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Length of Program
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Age of Target Audience
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30 minutes
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From
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13 years
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16 years
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Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming
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The CBS Television Network provides information identifying the core programs it supplies to stations affiliated with the Network, including an indication of the target child audience. WTKR supplies this information to the following publishers of program guides: Display Systems Intl., FYI Television, Macrovision, TV Guide, TV Data Technologies, Tribune Media Services, The Daily Press, and TV Media.
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Care Bears: Adventures in Care-A-Lot was preempted on Saturday, March 14, 2009 at 11:30am due an NCAA Basketball Championship game on CBS. As a result, the preempted episode was rescheduled and aired on Sunday, March 15, 2009 at 11:00am.
Since the fourth quarter of 2003, WTKR began airing Teen Kids News, formerly Eyewitness Kids News on Saturday's, 8:30am. This program is geared towards kids 13-16. This program is considered FCC qualified (E-I) Educational, Informational Children's Programming. The mission of Teen Kids News is to produce a weekly news program that will provide information and news to kids in a manner that is compelling as well as highly entertaining. It is designed to appeal to the audience on its own level. The focus of the program is young people, always letting them tell their stories in their own words. The large, diverse news anchor team will be unique in television and have great appeal to kids who will identify and emulate them. This program will serve the audience in a way that will make a real difference in their lives. It will insert the clear voice of the kid into the adult-dominated media and provide a unique perspective to the news that is not currently available on network television.
We realize that children need to know that there are many career opportunities available for them in the future, so our anchors and reporters make school appearances to discuss the options of a broadcast career. Our meteorologists also make guest appearances at elementary schools in the area to teach children about the weather and how to be prepared in case of severe weather. We plan to continue this in the upcoming quarter.
As part of our station's awareness of the need to read to children, our anchors and reporters make guest appearances in various elementary schools around the area in order to read stories to our youth.
In addition to going out into the community, we also invite children to tour our studios to see the inner workings of a TV station/newsroom. We feel this will give them ideas for career opportunities they might want to pursue in the future.
We feel all of the above programs demonstrate our committment to children and enhance the educational and informational value of broadcast and non-broadcast programming to children.
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WILLFUL FALSE STATEMENTS MADE ON THIS FORM ARE PUNISHABLE BY FINE AND/OR IMPRISONMENT (U.S. CODE, TITLE 18, SECTION 1001), AND/OR REVOCATION OF ANY STATION LICENSE OR CONSTRUCTION PERMIT (U.S. CODE, TITLE 47, SECTION 312(a)(1)), AND/OR FORFEITURE (U.S. CODE, TITLE 47, SECTION 503).
I certify that the statements in this application are true, complete, and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief, and are made in good faith.
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