Programming for special groups through closed-circuit television.

At Winnipeg's Children's Hospital Television (CHTV), there was concern that the closed-circuit alternative television station was not realizing its full potential in helping to meet the special needs of the adolescent and native Canadian patients. Consequently, CHTV hired workers to produce programming targeted at these two groups. This article documents the underlying philosophy and structure of this programming. It also discusses how other children's health care institutions might adapt this kind of programming to suit their own groups with special needs.