Talk:Television content rating system

A Question

Is TV MA the telivision version of R,or is it the telivision version of NC 17

I don’t even know an expert, but here’s my 2¢ anyway: TV-MA VSL is the highest TV rating. NC-17 is the highest movie rating. I guess the next step down, TV-MA with no subratings, is equivalent to R. —Frungi 03:50, 7 June 2006 fuck

While TV-MA is a clear corollary to R, I'd say that in actual usage, TV-MA begins at a strong PG-13. For example, episodes of South Park are often rated TV-MA, and in my opinion, few, if any, of them would be rated R under the MPAA standards. -- DImfeld 21:13, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Irish Ratings

Does anyone know the Irish Ratings? I can't remember any of them off the top of my head. Richy 17:01, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Icon after every commercial break

Should we put some more details on the description about why an icon should be shown after every commercial break? This ensures that the show should be appropriate for families. I know about why the TV-14 rating is one of the most hated ratings in the television viewing industry. --Bigtop (tk|cb|em|ea) 16:43, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

GA (General Audience) - a programme that would be acceptable to all ages and tastes. Ch (Children) - a programme aimed specifically at children ages 5-11. YA (Young Adult) - a programme aimed at an adolescent audience. That is to say it would not be of great interest to an adult. However, it might deal with issues which affect the teenage audience, e.g. relationships, sexual activity, sexuality, soft drugs. Parents and guardians could expect that "YA" programmes might contain such material and may choose to limit their children's access. PS (Parental Supervision) - a programme aimed at a mature audience (i.e. It might deal with adult themes, be moderately violent, frightening or contain an occasional swear word.) and the classification label invites parents or guardians to consider restricting children's access. MA (Mature Audience Only) - a typical "post-watershed" program which might contain scenes of strong sexual activity and heavy violence, or the dialogue might be profane.

Opposition

I think the whole television rating system is basically a farce. It's annoying to see that little box sporadically pop up (especially if I'm recording the program). Besides, when I was a child, I would have used the system for the opposite reason and made it a point to specifically watch things with a higher rating. DtownG 3:15, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

And your parents would have blocked those programs. Using the V-chip to block certain ratings is kind of the point of the ratings, isn’t it? That works, from what I can tell. —Frungi 03:57, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Also: it may cause interference to the background - it's a waste. --Bigtop (customer service - thank you for your cooperation.) 06:01, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia is NOT a discussion forum. Put your opinion on your own Blog or something, it has no use to state it here. - TheDJ (talk • contribs • WikiProject Television) 21:48, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

New Zealand

Some programmes exceed the guidelines and have special notes like AO 9:30 p.m. or later when sexually related body parts and/or situations might appear.

I've never seen a note like this myself, although I may be too young to remember it (I'm assuming it's an outdated mode of classification?). There is nothing on the TVNZ website about this particular issue. Can someone clear this up for me? Thanks! --HughL ^[talk?]/_[contribs] •  12:25, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

The NZ Free-to-Air Code of Practice [1] declares "AO 9.30pm" as a separate classification (see Appendix 1): These programmes may contain a greater degree of sexual activity, potentially offensive language, realistic violence, sexual violence, or horrific encounters -Spiky Sharkie [ talk ] 00:47, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Improper order

On NBC, I don't know why the TV-14 subrating order is "L", then "D". That's not proper in terms of alphabetical order, the standard. Do you know why does NBC do that, unlike ABC and CBS? --Bigtop (tk|cb|em|ea) 21:30, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

• Also, on FOX, any program rated TV-14-DLSV is written as TV-14-DSLV. Weird. FictionH 17:05, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

TV-AO

There used to be something about a "TV-AO" rating in the article, but now it's gone. Will there be a "Tv-AO" rating, and why was it removed from the article?

not that i no of. it doesn't say anything about that rating at tvguidelines.com. --69.235.93.81 04:33, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

SVG

How would you feel if I converted those rating icons into vector graphics? I wish to make the Canadian rating icons vector images as well. --  Denelson83  09:17, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

The Australia section

Whoever wrote the Australia section obviously doesn't know what they're talking about. There's no 14+ ratings, but there are 15+ (MA15+ and AV15+). Also, there is no such thing as "MAV". SBS uses the standard ratings, and as far as I know, the ABC doesn't televise anything over M. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 124.181.139.24 (talk) 05:06, 6 January 2007 (UTC).

You're correct - the 14+ ratings are 15+. However I used to see the "MAV" rating on SBS before the AV15+ rating came out. I do not know if SBS still uses this or not. While it's true there are not many MA rated shows on ABC, I'm not sure that this means they do not show MA rated shows at all. Unless there's a verfiable source for the MAV rating and the fact that ABC doesn't show anything over M I would suggest these are left out of the info.

I have done some edits to the section based on the Commercial Television Code of Practice (http://www.aba.gov.au/contentreg/codes/television/documents/CodeofPractice-July2004.pdf) - is it worth noting this doesn't apply to SBS or ABC?

SBS is not covered by the ACMA (late ABA) or the commercial television code of practice, meaning they are free to use whatever ratings they want. they do however use the same rating system, but back when AV was first introduced, SBS chose to call it MAV, presumably because it is effectively MA with previously MA level violence, where the MA rating's violence level was toned down to M level. SBS never changed to the commercial television equivalent of AV 15+. ABC does show MA 15+, usually very late, Rage is rated MA 15+ from its start until 6AM when it becomes G until its end. actual evidence of an MAV 15+ rating can be seen here ( http://www.sbs.com.au/sbscorporate/index.html?id=1061#4.5 ) Dangaz 08:51, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

• Similarly, the ABC's classifications are covered by their own Code of Practice. The ABC does not use the "MAV" rating like SBS does (I had made the presumption on this article that they did; my bad, as I thought I had seen MAV-rated content on-air on ABC before) - however their guidelines require MA15+ programs to start at 9:30pm, which is the time used for AV on the commercial stations (and SBS) and instead of the 9:00pm required of MA15+-rated content on those stations -Spiky Sharkie [ talk ] 06:02, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

This is the first I've heard of Rage being MA15+ rated. It's always been rated M as far as I know, with the show reducing its rating to G after 6am. Sillygostly 10:49, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Page getting large

This page is getting awfully large. Perhaps it's best to start dividing it in more country specific articles. An example Television rating in the Netherlands uses the same system that also rates movies, games etc. An article named Media content rating in the Netherlands that would contain the current Dutch sections on this page and the Motion picture rating system page, would probably be better suited and could be linked from this page. what do other people think? TheDJ (talk • contribs • WikiProject Television) 22:08, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

I have added the split apart template in order to attract a bit more attention to this problem.

Article split

The ideas are this:

• Create a new "List of Television rating systems" that link to all the individual systems currently on this page.
• If one system is used for all television rating in a country, we create a new article for it called [[Television content rating in <countryname>]], [[Film content rating in <countryname>]], [[Game content rating in <countryname>]]
• If one system is used for all mediaratings in a country, we create a new article for it called [[Media content rating in <countryname>]]
• If the system has a distinct name, use that name instead TV Parental Guidelines, Kijkwijzer, and if it's the only system in a country, redirect the [[<media> content rating in <countryname>]] links to it.

TheDJ (talk • contribs • WikiProject Television) 15:13, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Possible Restrictions?

This is an article from Canada with two facts:

1. Canadian Television is sometimes a little lighter on the "S" word.

• • A Canadian TV show can have minimal use of the word and be rated PG. Medium-frequent use will make it 14+ at maximum.
  • American TV-14 shows in Canada, however, remain unchanged and still have that word "bleeped" out.

2. On five out of the seven major U.S. networks that I do receive (CBS, ABC, NBC, PBS, and FOX), I don't see any TV-MA programs that air on a regular prime time schedule (Movies are NOT included). Some Canadian over-the-air networks air 18+ programs during prime time. The proof can sometimes (but only sometimes) be found in their national schedules.

• • One of the OTA networks airs Nip/Tuck at 10 PM on Saturdays, and formerly aired The Sopranos. They were both rated 18+.
  • The three fully national, and many semi-national OTA networks in Canada each show at least one movie per year that is rated 18+ on TV.

Is there a ban on airing TV-MA rated TV shows and movies on the fully national over-the-air networks in the U.S.? And is there a ban on intense swearing on the same networks for just TV shows?

Rating name change

Anyone know the reason the original TV-13 was changed to TV-14. Please explain. Georgia guy 20:58, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

TV-G vs. TV-Y7

Who believes that TV-G programs are more appropriate than TV-Y7 (with or without "FV") programs? Jonghyunchung 21:47, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Bear in mind that TV-Y7 programs have little to do with content, but rather, signify that these programs are specifically aimed at children, whereas TV-G programs are simply considered appropriate for all ages. In actuality, some TV-Y7 content may be worthy of a TV-PG rating if these shows weren't aimed at kids. Sillygostly 03:24, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

So I guess if a family-audience program contained "Y7" content, it would be rated TV-PG, would it? Jonghyunchung 11:18, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

ya it would probably --Coolgokid 03:16, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

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Different languages

If someone didn't have the time to get to their language's Wikipedia, shouldn't the different country we are talking about be in the same languages? Pacguy19 22:07, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

TV-Y7 content

I noticed some different content in the TV-G section. Drake and Josh (Show on Nickelodeon) occasionally has the words "oh my god" and it's rated TV-Y7. Was the TV-G section edited improperly? Pacguy19 17:50, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Yo. Will ya'll quit it

A teenager is just an older child. U guyz sayin' this garbage like "Suitable for children 8 and up" and the "Suitable for teenagers 14 and up" r probobly adults or little kids. Cuz us teenagers like 2 b considered children. We love childhood. Mostly us kids who r da oldest in da family 2. A teenager is just an other word 4 a "big kid". I mean I just feel insulted when I'm not called a child. a child is anyone under 21. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr. Comedian (talk • contribs) 23:15, August 27, 2007 (UTC)

TV-G has crude humor

If any o' u guyz eva watched The Suite Life, or Full House n otha sitcoms. They do contain very mild crude humor (like bathroom humor n crap like that). So guess that covas evrythng, Peace! --Mr. Comedian 21:59, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

From Pre-disclaimer to DLSV

Because I haven't seen a single pre-disclaimer content warning on national television in the U.S., this means that the DLSV and the TV-*(*) would both have to be alternatives to this. The Canadian maple leaf has absolutely no room to paste a D, L, S and or V on it. The Canadian pre-disclaimer also includes forensics. This is equal to TV-14 M. This means that there would be DLMSV instead of DLSV.

• Examples: This means that in Canada, Bones would just be rated "TV-14 M", Inuyasha rated "TV-PG D", and House "TV-14 (Nothing)". When I say nothing, it means none of the letters of DLSV are included.