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Broadcasters Criticize Proposed Children’s TV Rules: Television broadcasters are opposing key parts of a controversial government plan to promote educational TV for kids, saying new regulations are unnecessary and may violate the Constitution. In comments filed with the Federal Communications Commission, the National Assn. of Broadcasters said children’s TV rules are unnecessary because broadcasters are already meeting the goals of the 1990 Children’s Television Act to promote educational programming. In addition, the NAB argued that the rules could infringe broadcasters’s First Amendment rights. Meanwhile, the Public Broadcasting Service, in a submission to the FCC, proposed that broadcasters could air less than a minimum required amount of educational shows as long as they paid for the right to do so. The money would be turned over to public broadcasting, which could use it to create educational shows.