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The Parents Television Council’s Release is Flawed by Faulty Analysis and Biased Methodology
CHARLESTON, SC (April 19, 2007) — Facts the Parents Television Council doesn’t want you to know!
- According to PTC’s own survey, which was not limited to households with children, 12 percent of all U.S. television households use the V-Chip. Less than one-third of all U.S. households have children at home, and assuming that only households with children would use the V-Chip, PTC’s own results would indicate that more than one-third of all U.S. households with children use the V-Chip.
- V-chip ratings have proven far more useful to parents than government regulation of content. Ratings apply to all primetime entertainment programming and are available to parents before the program airs, allowing parents -- including the 12 percent of households that the PTC agrees use the V-Chip—to make their own judgment as to what content is right for their own families. In contrast, FCC regulation protects, at the most, the five percent of all U.S. households that: a) have kids and b) do not subscribe to unregulated cable and satellite TV.
As part of its launch in May 2005, TV Watch released a national poll that showed:
- By nearly four to one, Americans say more government regulation is not the solution,
personal responsibility is.
- 91 percent of Americans say that “some people will always be able to find something
on TV or radio that offends them but the sensitivities of a few should not dictate the
choices for everyone else.”
- 86 percent of Americans say more parental involvement is the best way to keep kids
from seeing what they shouldn’t see.
Luntz-Hart Survey
Americans Want to Decide for Themselves What They Watch On TV; Not Have The Government Decide
Based on a nationwide survey of 1,000 Americans age 18 and over conducted by Peter D. Hart
Research Associates and the Luntz Research Companies in early March 2005, by a ratio of
nearly four to one, Americans want personal choice rather than government control. A
significant population of Americans is concerned about content on television but say that
government regulation is not the answer. Instead, they want the information and tools they need
to make their own choices about the programming content that they and their families watch.
 Download the Complete Luntz-Hart Survey (pdf format)
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