Action for Children's Television (ACT), with financial support from the Ford Foundation, presented the Third National Symposium on Children and Television at Yale University in October, 1972. It brought together childhood professionals, such as pediatricians, nursery school directors, and child psychologists, and media people such as broadcasters, producers, and television executives, to consider the effects of television on children and to review the efforts the media have made to provide quality programing for children. The former group discussed the impact of television on such aspects of children's lives as their fantasy and play worlds and their concept of death, while the latter examined their own philosophy and the criteria by which they make decisions. Other major topics were the economic traits of the industry, the possible alternative sources of future funding, and the directions in which changes might be made. (PB)