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	v-chip.org
		The television content rating systems are a method of giving television viewers an idea of the suitability of a television program for children and/or adults.
		A common mistake is the assumption that a rating for one episode of a television series, applies to all episodes of this series.
		It was established as a voluntary-participation system, with ratings to be determined by the individually-participating broadcast and cable networks.
	www.v-chip.org /TVRatingsSystem.htm (183 words)

	V-chip - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		V-chip is a generic term used for a feature of television receivers allowing the blocking of programs based on their ratings category.
		The rated programs' signals are encoded according to the rating, on line 21 of the broadcast signal's vertical blanking interval using the XDS protocol, and this is detected by the television set's V-chip.
		If the program's rating is outside the level configured as acceptable on that particular television, the program is blocked.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/V-chip (250 words)

	Television rating system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was established as a voluntary-participation system, with ratings to be determined by the individually-participating broadcast and cable networks.
		On Fox networks, the ratings icons are colored blue/white and larger than the voluntary specifications and appears at the start of the program and always on the half hour and hour.
		In order for the V-chip to detect the rating, the rating code must be embedded into the TV signal by the program's creator (in the same way closed captioning is embedded in the signal).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Television_rating_system (3951 words)

	The Michigan Daily Online
		However, rating a program for a 14-year-old belies the fact that children mature at different rates - some may be able to understand adult themes or the consequences of violence at younger ages.
		Families should not rely on the ratings system to guide their children - it is not an adequate tool to discriminate between good and bad television.
		Developing a rating system in hopes of improving the quality of television programs is like firing at a target without aiming.
	www.pub.umich.edu /daily/1997/jul/07-16-97/edit/edit3.html (0 words)

	Paul Ruzzo Thesis
		The founder of the MPAA's rating system was brought in to oversee the design and institution of the new television rating systems.
		Marks (12/17/1997) says the MPAA has consistently stated that the rating system is only a general guide and it's up to the parents to take responsibility for what their children watch (2).
		The television industry itself was required to develop the rating system, which would identify: "violence, sex, and other indecent material," and agree voluntarily to broadcast signals containing such ratings (56-57).
	people.wcsu.edu /mccarneyh/acad/RuzzoTHESIS.html (0 words)

	TESTIMONY
		Valenti were uniform in their recognition that media violence is a legitimate cause for concern, and they were quick to accept the V-chip rating system as an appropriate mechanism to address that concern in lieu of other policy options under consideration at the time that the industry found less palatable.
		While several of the media rating systems maintain advisory boards charged with supervisory responsibility, none have played a vigorous role in discharging their responsibilities to date, and all are dominated by media industry officials with only token participation at best by a parent or child advocate representative.
		There is a precedent for the television industry funding truly independent research from neutral parties to evaluate its performance in the realm of presenting violence responsibly, as was done with the National Television Violence Study and the UCLA Violence Report in the 1990s.
	www.senate.gov /~gov_affairs/072501_kunkel.htm (0 words)

	Jane Doe
		Their belief is that a new rating system will be expensive to implement and will likely create a system as confusing as the current one.
		Critics of changing the television industry’s rating system to one similar to the movie rating system may be correct in saying that the motion pictures industry’s rating system may also be confusing.
		The television rating system was put into place to protect children from programs not appropriate for their age group.
	www.octc.kctcs.edu /crunyon/E102/HasOV-Reb.htm (0 words)

	Jane Doe
		A stiffer rating system is also needed because it would help parents monitor the amount of violence, inappropriate language, and sexually explicit content their child watches.
		A new television rating system is of the utmost importance.
		Our negligence permits the television industry to escape its responsibilities and allows our children to be exposed to content of which we are unaware due to their haphazard labeling system.
	www.octc.kctcs.edu /crunyon/E102/HasJust.htm (0 words)

	Television Rating Information
		This ratings system is known as "TV Parental Guidelines." A monitoring board exists to ensure that ratings guidelines are applied accurately and consistently accross the television programming spectrum.
		Rating labels appear in the corner of your television screen during the first 15 seconds of each television program.
		Ratings are assigned to all television programming on The History Channel.
	www.history.com /ncta (0 words)

	Television Ratings Analysis Essay
		Purpose of the Essay: The purpose of this essay is for you to examine two television shows with a critical eye in regard to the rating applied to that show.
		Rating Scale: A copy of the rating scale used to rate television shows is attached.
		Appropriate: In your opinion, is the tv show appropriate for the audience the rating system says it is appropriate for.
	members.accessus.net /~bradley/tvessay.html (0 words)

	AAP Washington Office Congressional Statement: Statement for the Senate on Television Rating System
		Televised violence contributes to the unwholesome social environment in which we live, the frequency with which violence is used to resolve conflict, and the passivity with which violence is perceived.
		In regards to the rating system, it is important to have parents understand why such a system is needed, to make any rating system useful to parents, and to make sure the system is placed prominently in print and broadcast mediums.
		Television guides in most areas have yet to print any explanation of the industry's current rating system and the icons.
	www.aap.org /advocacy/washing/tvratsys.htm (0 words)

	Ratings - The TV IV
		Ratings in television can refer to either a generic term for the popularity of a show or the method used to specify the maturity level of the show's content.
		Ratings are measured by statistical sampling, with data gathered from electronic devices as well as written surveys about viewing habits.
		On January 1, 1997 a system of content ratings for television were introduced in the United States by the FCC due to complaints by various consumer groups of the increasing level of sex, violence and other adult content on televsion.
	tviv.org /ratings (0 words)

	Television ratings Summary
		In the world of television ratings, the number of people watching a show is the important factor, not the intrinsic, qualitative value of the show.
		To measure television set usage in sample homes, the Nielsen company installs meters to televisions which automatically log when the sets are on and to which programs the sets are tuned.
		In addition, in the 48 largest television markets, there is a sample of homes with set meters that record when the television is on and the channel to which it is tuned.
	www.bookrags.com /Television_ratings (0 words)

	Paper on TV ratings
		The new television rating codes work with the new V-chips(the "v" stands for violence)that are required by law to be installed in all new television sets that are made in the United State.
		The current system of television ratings is based on the age of the viewer.
		Another reason the age-based system of television ratings is supported over the content-based system, is the parent’s responsibility of their children’s television viewing habits.
	www.stargtr.net /~abarker/tv.htm (2015 words)

	V-Chip and the Television Program Rating System
		These are caused by a combination of the television rating system and technology dubbed the "V-Chip." Both are the result of Section 551 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996; a piece of legislation designed to aid parents in protecting their children from violent or sexually suggestive programming.
		The rating system implied in the Act is deemed a voluntary provision that is merely strongly encouraged.
		The V-Chip and television rating systems are relatively new topics, being introduced in the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
	www.geocities.com /bsusonny/tcom304.html (0 words)

	The V-Chip Revisited
		The television industry beat the deadline by over a month and in December of 1996, it came out with its “age based system.” This system rated each television show, with certain shows such as sports and news exempted, based on whether the content was appropriate for certain age groups.
		The five aged based rating systems are: children’s ratings of TV-Y (suitable for all children) and TV-Y-7 (suitable for children age 7 and over) and general ratings of TV-G (suitable for audiences of all ages); TV-14 (inappropriate for children under the age of 14), and TV-M (for mature audiences only).
		This rating system did not appease Washington or parental groups, both of which wanted a content based system closer to the system tested in Canada (and ultimately abandoned by Canada).
	www.rmslaw.com /articles/art41.htm (0 words)

	TV Rating System-U for Useless? -- 10/02/1998
		One year after the television industry began using a program rating system, a new study by the Kaiser Family Foundation finds that the detailed "content descriptors," such as "V" and "S," are not widely used to warn parents of programs with sexual or violent content.
		The ratings system began a year ago when all the networks, except NBC and BET (Black Entertainment Television) agreed that in addition to the age-group ratings, they will televise the four letters to signal any objectionable content.
		The system was devised to coincide with the V-chip, an electronic device that can fl out shows that parents don't want their children to see.
	www.cnsnews.com /indepth/archive/199810/IND19981002c.html (0 words)

	The Communitarian Network
		These ratings are then included in the transmission of each program during the "vertical blanking interval"the extra signal room in all television transmissions that is already used, for example, to broadcast closed captioning (sending rating information thus requires no expansion of current transmission technology).
		Hence the need to rate all television programswhich are many times more numerous than movies (while there are about 2,000 hours of television programs to be rated each day,4 by contrast the entire movie industry combined produces 1,000 to 1,200 hours of movies per year5).
		Its ratings are based on evaluations by parents and child development specialists, and take into account the various levels of violence, sex, and other inappropriate content, as well as the developmental stage of the children.
	www.gwu.edu /~ccps/tv.html (0 words)

	Online NewsHour: Revising the TV ratings system - July 10, 1997
		Television ratings were only adopted in December, but they are already being revised.
		Parents at a town meeting in Peoria, Ill. give their reactions to the current system of rating TV shows.
		The nation's broadcasters unveils a new rating system meant to make it easier for parents to police their children's television watching.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec97/ratings_7-10.html (0 words)

	Protecting Children from Harmful Television: TV Ratings and the V-chip
		More specifically, this paper will briefly describe the history and development of television ratings, discuss three of the major problems associated with television ratings, and then finally point out some of the other methods that are available to help parents cope with the presence of television in their children's lives.
		With the exceptions of the children's rating system, the addition of "TV" before each of the ratings, and a few minor changes in the ratings themselves, the TV Parental Guidelines were virtually identical to the movie ratings.
		Theoretically speaking, then, the television ratings provide one way for parents to protect their children from witnessing what parents judge to be potentially harmful television.
	parenthood.library.wisc.edu /Nathanson/Nathanson.html (0 words)

	Television ratings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Television rating system, a rating system used to flag potentially offensive content
		Broadcaster's Audience Research Board, the organisation that compiles television ratings in the United Kingdom
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Television_ratings (95 words)

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		Rating systems are one tool that can help parents, but the current situation is absurdly incomprehensible and confusing.
		The current system of television ratings was the result of a compromise between the television industry and child advocacy groups.
		And please ensure that there are adequate resources to promote that system and to disseminate the information parents need in order to understand the severe health consequences of not properly guiding their children's media exposure.
	www.joannecantor.com /senatrat_tst.htm (2642 words)

	Michigan State University Newsroom - TELEVISION RATING SYSTEM INACCURATE HALF THE TIME
		Fifty percent of the age and content ratings that appear on air are different than what is published in TV Guide, said Bradley Greenberg, MSU professor of communication and telecommunication.
		The voluntary rating system began two years ago, when broadcast and cable stations agreed to include ratings that would alert viewers to age-appropriate shows, as well as to violent and sexual content in programming of all shows except news, sports and public affairs.
		Broadcast television was accurate 58 percent of the time; cable television was accurate 44 percent of the time.
	newsroom.msu.edu /site/indexer/1189/content.htm (0 words)

	ThinkQuest : Library Search
		We wanted to teach kids about the history of violence on television, the effects of television violence on kids, the violence chip and the controversy it has created as well as the television rating system.
		Television, music, and telephones are the main focus.
		This site is dedicated to the preservation of the culture of the 60s--from the political to the popular, from Vietnam to television, from the first walk on the moon to the Bay of Pigs invasion.
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	vchip.ca
		The system was approved by the Canadian Radio-television & Telecommunications Commission on June 18, 1997, in CRTC Public Notice 1997-80.
		The rating system, working in conjunction with the broadcasters' code on violence, the on-screen icons, viewer advisories, the independent compliance mechanism of the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council and now the V-chip, has given Canadian parents the most comprehensive and advanced parental control system in the world.
		The rating system to be used by English-language programming services has six levels, plus an Exempt level for programming which is not required to be classified.
	www.vchipcanada.ca /english/rating.html (0 words)

	AlterNet: Content Control: The Race for a TV Ratings System Rages On
		The common ground for advocates of a television rating system is splitting apart.
		The chosen system will be installed in the v-chip, a mechanism installed in new televisions that will enable parents to block the labeled programs of their choice.
		Critics charge this system fails to consider both the different rates of development for children and adolescents and individual codes of morality in households, he stands firmly behind his plan.
	www.alternet.org /story/6428 (0 words)

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	Understanding Television Rating Systems and Codes
		Broadcasters, cable systems and speciality channels follow voluntary codes of conduct that address issues such as violence, gender representation, ethics, and advertising to children.
		Our TV classification (or rating) system is designed to work with a filtering tool called the V-chip.
		To add to the confusion, not every television for sale in Canada is configured to work with all three systems.
	www.media-awareness.ca /english/parents/television/ratings_codes_tv.cfm (0 words)

	Nielsen delays new rating system - The Boston Globe
		In tests of the new system, almost all of the most popular shows in fl households dropped in the ratings, some by as much as 60 percent.
		The new system uses 800 households and electronically records what people are watching every day through a device connected to their TVs.
		Nielsen ratings are the currency of the television industry; the measurements are used to set local advertising rates.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2004/04/07/nielsen_delays_new_rating_system?mode=PF (0 words)

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