What is TV Parental Guidelines?
The '''TV parental guidelines''' are a [[television content rating system]] in the [[United States]]. They were [[proposal|proposed]] on December 19, 1996 by the [[United States Congress]], the [[television]] industry and [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC). The ratings went in effect on January 1, 1997 on most [[broadcasting|broadcast]] and [[cable television]] networks.<ref>{{cite news|title=Cable Agrees to Monitor Violence|publisher=Multichannel|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-15142788.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130522233100/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-15142788.html |access-date=Sep 5, 2020|archive-date=2013-05-22 }}</ref> This was due to public concern of explicit sex, graphic [[violence]] and [[profanity]] in [[television program]]s. The ratings are a voluntary system. The ratings are usually applied to most [[television series]], TV movies and edited basic cable versions of [[theatre|theatrical]] [[movies]]. [[Pay television]], like [[HBO]], [[Showtime (TV channel)|Showtime]] and [[Cinemax]] also assign the TV parental guideline ratings on movies. Most of these movies are not rated by [[Motion Picture Association of America]] or unrated versions of certain movies that may be rated. The ratings are designed to be used with the [[V-chip]]. The V-chip is in televisions which are made in and after 2000. The guidelines carry no legal forces. They're not used on news or sports shows. ==References== {{Reflist}} [[Category:American television]] {{multistub|tv|us}}