Concept information
Preferred term
television rating systems
Definition
- As part of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, Congress gave television industry representatives a year to develop a system to rate television programming. Establishing a ratings system was necessary to make the V-chip (violence chip) provision of the 1996 act possible. [Source: Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media; Television Rating Systems]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/television_rating_systems
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