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Smart Television Alliance Promoting Quality and
Educational Childrens TV
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The Smart Television Alliance (STA) is a new
coalition of national nonprofit organizations
united by a shared commitment to protecting the
well-being of our nations children. Television
is one of the most powerful mediums in the world.
It can educate, inspire, and entertain us. At the
same time, the alarming increase in violence,
indecency, and sexual content on TV undermines
the positive values parents and caregivers are
trying to instill in our youth. The co-chairs of
the Smart Television Alliance Reg Weaver Susan
Scanlan Jan Harp Domene President Chair Nat
ional President National Education
Association National Council of National Parent
Teacher Womens Organizations Association (PTA)
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Smart Television Alliance Members (List in
formation)
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The Smart Television Alliance will gather program
recommendations from the following nonprofit
experts Common Sense Media is a national
organization led by concerned parents and
individuals with experience in child advocacy,
public policy, education, media and
entertainment, dedicated to improving the media
and entertainment lives of kids and families.
Parents' Choice Foundation is the nation's
oldest nonprofit guide to quality children's
media and toys. It searches out and recommends
products that help kids grow imaginatively,
physically, morally and mentallyfairly priced
products that are fun, safe and socially sound.
Parents Television Council has over one million
members across the United States, and works with
television producers, broadcasters, networks and
sponsors in an effort to stem the flow of harmful
and negative messages targeted to children.
Coalition for Quality Children's Media KIDS
FIRST! is a national, nonprofit organization
founded in 1991 whose mission is to teach
children critical viewing skills and to increase
the visibility and availability of quality
children's media. PBS KIDS (as of yesterday!)
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About the Smart Television Alliance

• Our mission is simple we want to help parents
  and caregivers easily find the good stuff on TV
  for kids. We seek to promote quality,
  educational, and informational programmingthe
  best of childrens television.
• We are not encouraging children to watch more
  television, nor are we censoring or making
  judgments about what some may consider
  inappropriate programming. Instead, we are
  encouraging families to choose what they watch
  more carefully and to use television as an
  education tool.
• We do not want to replace or duplicate the work
  of established childrens media watch dogs,
  organizations and individuals who are experts in
  this field. Quite the opposite, our goal is to
  highlight the most valuable resources and inform
  all who share our concerns.

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Smart Television Alliance Tools Smart
Television Alliance information and resources
will be free and available to anyone with
internet access. Visit our website
www.smarttelevisionalliance.org (under
construction) Smart News Smart News is a
twice monthly e-newsletter edited by Stephanie
Booth, an independent, experienced investigative
journalist and freelance writer with nearly a
decade of published articles focusing on youth.
Ms. Booth is the former contributing-editor of
Teen People and is a regular contributor to the
Washington Post Magazine. Her articles have
appeared in newspapers including the Christian
Science Monitor, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times
magazines including Parents, Parenting,
Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Marie Claire, Self,
Womans Day, Mens Health, Shape and online at
Salon.com and MSN.com, among others.
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