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Parents Television Council - Because Our Children Are Watching

PTC Special Reports

The PTC has published many highly acclaimed Special Reports, all of which received nationwide attention and sparked the current national debate concerning broadcast indecency, localism, cable a la carte, the television ratings system, and the absence of family programming.

 

LATEST


PTC Ratings for the Top 20 Most Popular TV Shows - 2008

Profanity Study - 2008

Happily Never After - 2008

Video Game Secret Shopper Results - 2008

The Rap on Rap - 2008

The Alarming Family Hour...No Place for Children - 2007

PTC Reveals Best and Worst TV Advertisers - 2007

The Ratings Sham II - 2007

Dying to Entertain: Violence on Primetime Broadcast TV - 1998-2006

Faith in a Box - A Study on Entertainment Television and Religion - 2005-2006

Wolves in Sheep's Clothing: A Content Analysis of Children's Television

I Want My Foul TV- More Evidence Proving Cable Industry Campaign to Promote Responsibility is a Sham

Father's Day Study: More TV Fathers are Involved in TV Family Life

MTV Smut Peddlers: Targeting Kids with Sex, Drugs and Alcohol

Basic Cable Awash in Raunch

Ay Caramba! Spanish-Language TV Just as Risqué as English-Language Fare

 

State of the Industry Reports


Profanity Study - 2008

The Alarming Family Hour...No Place for Children - 2007

Dying to Entertain: Violence on Primetime Broadcast TV - 1998-2006

TV Bloodbath: Violence on Prime Time Broadcast TV

The Blue Tube: Foul Language on Prime Time Network TV

Sex Loses its Appeal: A State of the Industry Report on Sex on TV

 

Reports on Top 10 Best and Worst Shows on Primetime Network TV

 

Reports on Cable TV


The Rap on Rap - 2008

I Want My Foul TV- More Evidence Proving Cable Industry Campaign to Promote Responsibility is a Sham

MTV Smut Peddlers: Targeting Kids with Sex, Drugs and Alcohol

Basic Cable Awash in Raunch

Top Ten Best & Worst Cable Shows of the 2001-2002 TV Season

Prime Time Cable TV Wired for Raunch

 

Reports on Reality TV


Reality TV: Race to the Bottom

Harsh Reality: Unscripted TV Reality Shows Offensive to Families

 

TV Ratings Reports


The Ratings Sham II - 2007

The Ratings Sham: TV Executives Hiding Behind a System That Doesn't Work

 

TV Advertisers Reports


PTC Reveals Best and Worst TV Advertisers - 2007

PTC Ranks Top Ten Best/Worst Advertisers - 2006

PTC Announces Top Ten Best/Worst Advertisers - 2005

Top 10 Best and Worst Advertisers of 2001-2002

 

Reports on Religion


Faith in a Box - A Study on Entertainment Television and Religion - 2005-2006

Faith in a Box - A Study on Entertainment Television and Religion - 2004-2005

 

Other


Happily Never After - 2008

Video Game Secret Shopper Results - 2008

Father's Day Study: More TV Fathers are Involved in TV Family Life

Ay Caramba! Spanish-Language TV Just as Risqué as English-Language Fare

Dereliction of Duty: How the Federal Communications Commission Has Failed the Public

Kids in the Crosshairs: Children Still Targeted in Marketing of Adult Rated Entertainment

May Sweeps Round-Up

Father Knows Best - Latest PTC Study Shows More Positive Treatment of TV Dads

How and Why Howard Stern's TV Show Failed

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