(Riverport, NS, Canada) – Riverport students are saying no to television. Many students have agreed to turn off their sets for at least a few nights as part of the TV Busters program, designed to encourage them to find alternatives to television.

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(Philly.com) Walk into Caroline Black’s house and you’ll find a shrine to the technology of television.

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(Hampstead, MD) Middle school students urged to tune out in Oct. Sixth-graders at North Carroll Middle School in Hampstead are being encouraged to turn off the tube for the month of October.

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(PEOPLE) PITY AMERICA’S TELEVISION NETWORK: During the past five years they’ve lost nearly a quarter of their audience share to that Nielsen eroder, cable. Now they have something‚Äîand someone‚Äîelse to worry about: Pat Marker, a Minnesota elementary school teacher who has persuaded more than 37,000 students to give up the tube Mondays through Thursdays. How does he succeed in a battle that so many parents have lost? Simple: bribery. Just say no, Marker tells students, and you might win prizes, donated by local merchants, that range from erasers to autographed hockey sticks to even boom boxes.

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(SunSentinel.com) A nationwide program to get children away from the television and into reading and other activities is available to interested schools.

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(Baltimore Sun) TV Busters they were. Sixth-graders at North Carroll Middle School eliminated 997 hours of television from their diet last month.

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Minnesota Governor Arne Carlson kicks of the TV Busters! program at Kimberly Lane Elementary School in Plymouth, Minnesota in October of 1991.
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News coverage of the TV Busters! program in the fall of 1990. KARE 11 News visited Park Elementary School in Hutchinson, Minnesota.
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