TV Parental Guidelines

The TV Parental Guidelines are a television content rating system in the United States that was first proposed on December 19, 1996, by the United States Congress, the television industry and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and went into effect by January 1, 1997, on most major broadcast and cable networks in response to public concerns about increasingly explicit sexual content, graphic violence and strong profanity in television programs. It was established as a voluntary-participation system, with ratings to be determined by the individually participating broadcast and cable networks.

The ratings are generally applied to most television series, television films and edited broadcast or basic cable versions of theatrically-released films; premium channels also assign ratings from the TV Parental Guidelines on broadcasts of some films that have been released theatrically or on home video, either if the Motion Picture Association of America did not assign a rating for the film or if the channel airs the unrated version of the film.

Television content rating systems

Television content rating systems are systems for evaluating the content and reporting the suitability of television programs for children, teenagers or adults. Many countries have their own television rating system and countries' rating processes vary due to local priorities. Programs are rated by either the organization that manages the system, the broadcaster, or by the content producers.

A rating is usually set for each individual episode of a television series. The rating can change per episode, network, rerun and per country. As such, program ratings are usually only meaningful by stating when and where this rating is used.

Use

Argentina

In Argentina, the content rating system are identical to those used by the local film bureau.