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03/16/2006
TV Watch Available to Discuss $3.5 Million Government Fines for TV Shows NEW YORK, Mar. 16 -- The following is a statement by TV Watch Executive Director Jim Dyke on TiVo's Children's Program: TV Watch is the leading voice to promote parental control tools and information for TV as a better alternative to increased government control of TV. TV Watch executive director Jim Dyke is available today to discuss the FCC fines against broadcast programs. Last night, TV Watch released this statement: "Today's FCC decision and dissenting comments to some of those decisions reflects the challenge hundreds of millions of parents face each day - what television is appropriate for them and their family. While a small group of activists want the government to enforce their preferences on which programs adult Americans can view during their leisure time - the vast majority of Americans prefer to decide for themselves what to watch on TV." "Parents have the information to make informed decisions about what their children watch on TV and the tools to enforce those decisions. We should let parents make those individual decisions instead of allowing special interests to pressure the government into choosing for all of us." TV Parental controls make it easy for parents to control what their kids watch With input from family and children’s advocacy groups, Congress, the FCC, television broadcasters, cable systems and television producers, the broadcasting industry began using a voluntary program ratings system in 1998. The set of ratings labels was created to help parents determine which television programs are suitable for their children. TV ratings appear on the television screen and in many TV schedules. TV ratings have two ratings for programs designed for children (TV-Y and TV-Y7) and four ratings for all audiences (TV-G, TV-PG, TV-14, TV- MA). Setting parental controls is similar to setting any other electronics. About TV Watch TV Watch was launched in May 2005 as a coalition of individuals and organizations to promote the use of parental controls and to support the views of the majority of Americans who prefer individual control of TV content to increased government regulation. TV Watch consists of 27 prominent individuals and organizations representing more than 4 million Americans.
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