Activities concerned with children and television described in two Children's Broadcast Institute newsletters published during the International Year of the Child are summarized and discussed. Conferences, events, and symposia described include L'Enfant et Les Mass-Medias, Euro/Pan-American Convention on Television for the Young in the 80's, Working Together for Children, Emotion as a Means of Dramaturgy, ENFILM 79, Banff Film Festival, Today's Child--Tomorrow's World, Power of Television, and Parents' Viewing Month. Brief reports on broadcasting, programming, and research in special children's programming summarize projects undertaken by Radio-Canada, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CTV Television Network, Global Television Network, Tele-Metropole Inc., Radio-Quebec, TV Ontario, Canadian Cable Television Association, The Canadian Children's Channel, and CVAC-TV and the University of Calgary. Summary reports from academia include Children and Television--Media and Values; The Child in Canadian Society; Celebration! Children and Media; Television Research in Quebec; Children and Television--Implications for Education; Come Share with Me; and The Child of Film. Abstracts of 14 articles, publications, and reports are also presented, as well as a 31-item bibliography on media and children. (CHC)