NBC4 Children's Report

Shows for kids on NBC4

Updated 11:34 AM EDT, Mon, Mar 8, 2010

Print Email Share TWITTER FACEBOOK

NBC4 is committed to serving the educational and informational needs of children. Copies of the station's written reports describing our efforts to provide children's educational and informational programming are on file at NBC4, 4001 Nebraska Ave NW, Rm 110, Washington DC.

To view WRC-TV's current and past children's filings, visit the FCC Web site at the following address:

http://licensing.fcc.gov/KidVid/public/report/10/query.faces

Qubo On NBC Educational Objectives

In compliance with the Children’s Television regulations that became effective January 2, 1997, the QUBO Programming Block on NBC features an on-air icon indicating that each program is "educational and informational" for children. This icon is displayed throughout the program. Also, in compliance with the regulations, the following document, which includes "educational and informational" objectives of QUBO on NBC, must be placed in our public file.

Each of the programs listed below, which make up the QUBO programming block, is specifically designed to serve the "educational and informational" needs of children ages 4-8. All of the programs have educational objectives that are central to the content and appropriate to the program genre. All shows were developed specifically for a target audience composed of children 4-8 years of age. Each show contains an important social-emotional message for the target audience, delivered through an animated narrative format.

TURBO DOGS is a show about six canine friends—Dash, GT, Clutch, Stinkbert, Strut, and Mags—who have their own distinct characteristics but share a common love of racing cars. The fastest dogs in Racerville, the Turbo Dogs often compete with one another in races. The dogs each have their own racers, which they maintain regularly, and that are equipped with individual GPS systems to help and guide them. Each story begins with one of the Turbo Dogs encountering a problem that must be resolved while preparing to compete. Usually, the Turbo Dog learns his/her lesson through experience and accountability for negative behavior. Social-emotional messages about sportsmanship, teamwork, cooperation, and fairness developed in the story are emphasized in a separate tag at the end of each episode.

SHELLDON is an animated series that takes place in Shell Land, a mythical undersea world populated by characters from a wide array of water-dwelling species. The main character, Shelldon, is an orphaned yoka shell mollusk adopted by the Clam family and living with them in the family-owned Charming Clam Inn. Dr. Shell, an elder and venerated inventor, and Connie, a cowry shell classmate of Shelldon’s also live at the inn. Shelldon and his buddies Herman (a Hermit crab) and Connie always work together and solve problems that they face in school or in the community. A recurring problem is to staunch the plans of the local millionaire, Cecil Cracken, whose greed puts making money over protecting the environment. Dr. Shell is typically the children’s key provider of knowledge and other resources. In each episode, the children learn a significant social-emotional lesson and also share information relating to their ocean habitat and environmental protection.

3-2-1 PENGUINS! draws upon characters from two stories and uses both long and short form material involving these characters to provide social-emotional messages to children. The show features two children, Jason and Michelle, whose vacation at their grandmother’s cottage ends up being more adventure than they expect when their toy spaceship with four toy Penguins comes to life. The children are sucked into the spaceship, where they meet the now live Penguins and journey through space to solve an inter-galactic disaster threatening the Penguins and their friends. Each story begins with a problem and ends after the children have learned an important

BABAR, based on the books by Laurent de Brunhoff, is an animated show about a young orphaned elephant who finds the strength to rise above the challenges he faces, including the death of his parents, as he journeys through life. Each episode of the show develops a social-emotional message such as taking responsibility, being patient and persistent in hard work, respecting people’s privacy, learning to cope with unforeseen changes, and being honest. These messages emerge from the need to resolve a dilemma that is faced by Babar, one of his friends or family members. BABAR first appeared on the schedule in 2007 and is returning with new episodes in 2009.

WILLA’S WILD LIFE is a new animated series featuring a six-year-old girl, Willa, who is permitted to share her home with an ever-growing menagerie of animals-- an elephant, a giraffe, a pair of performing seals, a bear, three penguins, and lots of rabbits. These creatures speak to Willa, offering her advice and friendship from each of their respective points of view. In each episode, Willa faces a challenge at home, in school or in her neighborhood. Her animals and best friend Dooley help her develop solutions to overcome each challenge. With the support of Dooley, the animals and praise from her dad, Willa finds ways to maintain healthy friendships, experience success, develop competence, and become altruistic.

JANE AND THE DRAGON is a coming-of-age story about a middle-class, medieval girl who lives in the Royal Court with her family. As an only child, Jane is raised to be a Lady-in-Waiting but through her determination and a stroke of luck, she ends up being trained as a Knight in the King’s Guard. Accompanied by her best friend, a giant green Dragon that lives in her backyard, Jane experiences a series of adventures that test her character and her skills as a young knight in a castle full of friends and foes. Each episode in the show takes us through the problems and challenges Jane encounters and the process she goes through to find the solutions for them.