ANTI-INDECENCY GROUP NAMES NEW PRESIDENT

Former NBC executive Tim Winter will succeed Brent Bozell as president of the Parents Television Council, the Los Angeles-based group that has led the charge against broadcast indecency for the past several years.

Winter, now executive director of the group, takes over on Jan. 1, 2007. Bozell, the founder of the group, will continue to serve on the board of directors.

“Since launching the Parents Television Council in 1995, I’ve given everything I had to this organization, and in our short 11-year history we’ve accomplished more than anyone thought possible,” said Bozell in a statement.

“We’ve made our mission—to restore a sense of decency to the entertainment community—a national issue,” he said. “The PTC has built the largest research operation in history, the basis of all our work documenting the degree to which Hollywood is polluting the culture. We have built a membership base of over 1 million members, and now have 38 local and state chapters in operation around the country.”

Winter spent fifteen years at NBC where he served in a number of financial and management capacities in Burbank, New York and London.  He also worked two years at the MGM film studio and spent several years as an Internet streaming entrepreneur. He joined PTC in 2003.

Winter said he was honored to follow Bozell. “Together with our talented staff, we will build upon the PTC’s legacy of success,” he said in a statement.

“We will continue to hold broadcasters accountable for what they air over the public’s airwaves,” he said. “We will continue to force advertisers to take responsibility for the programs they sponsor. And we will continue to fight for the right of families to choose and pay for only the cable networks they want coming into their homes.”