The Parents Television and Media Council is calling on the FCC and Congress to regulate streaming services. That came Tuesday after the heads of the top streaming services did not participate in its virtual town hall on better content controls.
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The Parents Television Council is calling on Netflix CEO Reed Hastings to personally intervene and remove the film 365 Days, which it says glamorizes sex trafficking, rape and kidnapping, from its streaming service. […]
The Parents Television Council today announced the Best and Worst TV Advertisers, its annual list of companies that support programming that it deems safe for families, and those who sponsor some […]
The Parents Television Council today issued what it called an “urgent warning to parents” ahead of the premiere of HBO’s teen-targeted Euphoria on Sunday, June 16. “Just as MTV did with Skins […]
The watchdog group releases its annual list in time for holiday shopping.
Today, the Parents Television Council released its annual list of “Best and Worst TV Advertisers,” which catalogues companies based on the television content they chose to underwrite with their media dollars over the past year.
The watchdog group takes 3,000 complaints to the FCC about the Fox show’s April 25 episode centered on breast implants.
The watchdog group says this Tuesday’s episode of the Fox sitcom, which centered on 17-year-old Sabrina and her desire to get breast implants, included graphic sexual dialogue and double-entendres.
The Parents Television Council said today it has contacted T-Mobile to urge the company to reconsider sponsoring Fox’s The Mick, a new sitcom that PTC says “routinely features minors smoking, drinking, […]
The Parents Television Council today called on the Congress, the FCC and the incoming Trump administration to move swiftly on four key FCC-related issues in order to serve the needs of […]
The Parents Television Council is urging Fox to consider moving its new sports drama, Pitch, to a different day and time to help ensure the show’s success. PTC is also reaching out […]
Parents Television Council has successfully convinced dozens of advertisers to pull out of VH1’s Dating Naked. The show, which is exactly what the title implies, has a 14+ rating, meaning 14 year-olds can watch it. To the PTC, that’s appalling considering the show’s cast members are all cavorting about nude — with heavy pixelation of their private parts.
Led by the Parents Television Council, the 28-member group asks the commission to review “the woefully-ineffective TV Content Ratings System, which is failing to protect children from harmful and explicit TV content on both broadcast and cable television.” It also launched a petition calling for reform.
The Parents Television Council says that the first three episodes of ABC’s new show, The Real O’Neals, “were so saturated with adult content that sexual content and bleeped profanities aired […]
On the heels of the highly-watched, family-friendly special broadcast of NBC’s The Wiz Live, the Parents Television Council is renewing its call for broadcasters to program for families throughout the year and not only during the holidays. According to new PTC data, there were 11.5 fewer hours of TV-PG primetime broadcast programming during a two-week study period in 2014 than in 2011, representing an almost 20% decrease.
The Parents Television Council released its annual list of “Best and Worst TV Advertisers,” which catalogs companies based on the television content they chose to underwrite with their media dollars over the past year.
