TV Parental Guidelines

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The TV Parental Guidelines is a television content rating system in the United States that was first proposed on December 19, 1996, by the United States Congress, the American television industry, and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The system was introduced on January 1, 1997, on most major broadcast and cable networks in response to public concerns about increasing amounts of mature content in television programs. The system consists of six age-based ratings, as well as content descriptors (designated by letters displayed underneath the rating symbol) specifying content such as suggestive dialogue (D), sexual situations (S), coarse language (L), and/or violence (V). The ratings are generally applied to most television series, television films and edited broadcast or basic cable versions of theatrically released films. They are not typically used for news or sports broadcasts. Premium channels also assign ratings from the TV Parental Guidelines on broadcasts of some films...

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