The TV Parental Guidelines Monitoring Board is currently conducting research...
The TV Parental Guidelines Monitoring Board is currently conducting research which it will submit to the FCC when completed, a spokesman for the monitoring board said. In a letter sent last week that followed up on information requested in a…
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May 2011 meeting between FCC Media Bureau staff and the monitoring board, Media Bureau Chief Bill Lake asked NAB CEO Gordon Smith for information about how the board is meeting the commitments it made to the FCC in 1997. “As we have not yet received any such information, I am writing to request again that such information be provided to the FCC,” Lake wrote in the letter. Among the commitments were an agreement to conduct focus groups and quantitative studies to learn whether the parental guidelines are giving useful information to parents and to conduct independent scientific research and evaluation of the V-chip, Lake’s letter said. “I am writing to request an updated copy of any research undertaken by the board related to this commitment,” he said, asking for the information by Dec. 21.