The character Gus Griswald in the popular children's TV show Recess is named after Grissom ( his fictional father is a General in the US Army and Gus is his recruit ).

* Amelia Bedelia, a series of US children's books

Some ice cream distributors sell ice cream products from traveling refrigerated vans or carts ( commonly referred to in the US as " ice cream trucks "), sometimes equipped with speakers playing children's music.

The network also has rights to many films not released by Disney ( either because the studio does not have a children's network or has one that is incompatible with their focus ), such as Warner Bros .' ( Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ( known in the US as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone ), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ), Universal Pictures ( Beethoven, An American Tail, The Land Before Time ), The Weinstein Company ( Hoodwinked, The Magic Roundabout ), Sony Pictures ( Stuart Little, Stuart Little 2, Hook ), Lionsgate ( Happily N ' ever After ), 20th Century Fox ( Ice Age, the Home Alone film series, Catch That Kid ), Paramount ( Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown ( and Don't Come Back !!)).

European, Australian, Latin American, Spanish and Asian versions of TNT were launched in the 1990s but were exclusively dedicated to movies, mainly from the MGM and Warner Brothers archives ( The UK and Scandinavian TNT did show WCW Monday Nitro on Friday nights just four days after its US broadcast, and the Latin American version aired a children's block called " Magic Box ").

In the US there are three main children's commercial television channels, with each channel operating a number of secondary services:

Cheatham Lock and Dam, is a large recreational area operated by the US Army Corps of Engineers that offers many outdoor experiences such as camping, fishing, wildlife viewing, water sports, swimming, and multiple children's play areas stretching along the Cumberland River.

Britain and the US even backed Pol Pot's demand that his man continue to occupy Cambodia's seat at the UN, while Margaret Thatcher stopped children's milk going to the survivors of his nightmare regime.

After Princess Mononoke flopped financially in the US, Laputa's release date was pushed back yet again ; on occasion the completed dub was screened at select children's festivals.

A popular and familiar character on children's UK television, for the most part his work was not really known or appreciated in the US.

While her singles were mostly kept in the then-current sounds of the day such as Rock And Roll, novelty songs, the Twist, torch ballads, or the Girl Group Sound created by Brill Building alumni Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry, Francis ' albums represented her in a variety of styles, ranging in everything from R & B, vocal jazz and country to Broadway standards, children's music, waltzes, spiritual music, Schlager music, Traditionals from various ethnic groups represented in the US and select songs from popular songwriters of the day, such as Burt Bacharach & Hal David, or Les Reed.

The Nome Trilogy, also known in both the UK and the US as The Bromeliad Trilogy, is a trilogy of children's books by Terry Pratchett, consisting of

* Official site for children's books with Neil Gaiman ( US publisher )

CMHS is the driving force behind the largest US children's mental health initiative to date, which is focused on creating and sustaining systems of care.

Humphries ' numerous television appearances in Australia, the UK and the US include The Bunyip, a children's comedy for the Seven Network in Melbourne.

Initially, Sky Channel's programming remained much the same ( children's programmes, soaps, music programmes, and old US sitcoms and action series ), except for a number of new game shows and a few international travel documentaries.

This was done primarily as a tactic to comply with Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) restrictions on advertising in children's programming: popular imported programming would run a few minutes short due to fewer ads being permitted compared to US stations.

The Red Raven Magic Mirror and its special children's phonograph records, introduced in the US in 1956, was a 20th century adaptation of the praxinoscope.

Early children's programming often recycled theatrical cartoons ; later, low-budget animation produced especially for television dominated Saturday-morning network programming in the US.

A popular children's toy in the US is Lincoln Logs, consisting of various notched dowel rods that can be fitted together to build scale miniature-sized structures.

* Bill Martin, Jr. ( 1916 – 2004 ), US children's book author

** Walker Books for Young Readers – children's book list in the US only.

The " Americanization " of Mazinger Z for US consumption was done in part because of the stricter standards in regards to content for children's programming at that time.

Every year US News & World Report ranks the top children's hospitals and pediatric specialties in the United States.

In 1941, interviews on American radio and favorable articles in US magazines, including a piece by Jack Alexander in The Saturday Evening Post, led to increased book sales and membership.

A 1938 US radio production starred Joan Crawford as Nora and Basil Rathbone as Torvald.

A later US radio version by the Theatre Guild in 1947 featured Rathbone with Wendy Hiller and Catherine Rowan, his co-star from a contemporary Broadway production.

While at WERE ( 1300 AM ) in Cleveland, Ohio, DJ Bill Randle was one of the first to introduce Elvis Presley to radio audiences in the northeastern US.

Notable US radio disc jockeys of the period include Alan Freed, Wolfman Jack, Kasey Kasem, and their British counterparts such as the BBC's Brian Matthew, Radio London's John Peel, and later in the 60s, Radio Caroline's Tony Blackburn.

By 1987, freestyle was played on US pop radio stations.

Although Johnson would attest in a 1984 radio interview that the " two tribes " of the song potentially represented any pair of warring adversaries ( giving the examples of " cowboys and Indians or Captain Kirk and Klingons "), the song does contain the line " On the air America / I modelled shirts by Van Heusen ", a clear reference to then US President Ronald Reagan, who had advertised for Phillips Van Heusen in 1953 ( briefly reviving the association in the early 1980s ), and whose first film had been titled Love Is On The Air.

In November 2006, the Afghan Ministry of Communications signed a $ 64. 5 million US dollar deal with ZTE on the establishment of a countrywide fibre optical cable network to help improve telephone, internet, television and radio broadcast services not just in Kabul but throughout the country.

Morse code is most popular among amateur radio operators, although it is no longer required for licensing in most countries, including the US.

Both major US satellite radio services include disco stations.

In return for the hostages they succeeded in getting the government to pay US $ 1 million ransom, broadcast an FSLN declaration on the radio and in La Prensa, release fourteen FSLN members from jail, and fly the raiders and the released FSLN members to Cuba.

A thriving psychedelic music scene in Cambodia, influenced by psychedelic rock and soul broadcast by US forces radio in Vietnam, was pioneered by artists such as Sinn Sisamouth and Ros Sereysothea.

" With Every Heartbeat ", " Handle Me " and " Cobrastyle " were top ten club hits, and the former received airplay at US pop and dance radio stations.

In 2001 the band came to the US for major press, radio and TV appearances for the Bastard Life or Clarity release and returned Stubbs in Austin, Texas to kick off a sold out US tour with dates in Austin, Boulder, Chicago, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York City and the last show at the famous Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey.

Russell Crowe & The Ordinary Fear of God set out to break the new band in by performing a successful sold out series of dates of Australia in 2005 and then in 2006 returned to the US to promote their new release My Hand, My Heart with another sold-out US Tour and major press, radio and television appearances.

In 1917 the U. S. Government took charge of the patents owned by the major companies involved in radio manufacture in the US to devote radio technology to the war effort.

The wartime takeover of all radio systems ended late in 1918, when the US Congress failed to pass a bill which would have extended this monopoly.

The ending of the Federal Government's monopoly in radio communications did not prevent the War and Navy Departments from creating a national radio system for the US.

The following cooperation among RCA, General Electric, the United Fruit Company, the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, and American Telephone & Telegraph ( AT & T ) brought about innovations in high-power radio technology, and also the founding of the National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ) in the US.

According to the latest Red Wolf Recovery Program First Quarter Report ( October – December 2010 ), the US Fish and Wildlife Service estimates that there are currently 110-130 red wolves in the Red Wolf Recovery Area in North Carolina, however, since not all of the newly bred in the wild red wolves have radio collars, they can only confirm a total of 70 " known " individuals, 26 packs, 11 breeding pairs, and 9 additional individuals not associated with a pack.

The US Navy Department successfully tested printing telegraphy between an airplane and ground radio station in 1922.