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[edit] "Standards and Practices"

The Federal Communications Commission regulates television in the United States, and the television industry cooperates to sanitizing the airwaves. The industry has created a U.S. TV ratings system similar to the one offered by the MPAA ratings system.

[edit] The gov't regulation of television

The Children’s Television Act (CTA) of 1990 requires that broadcast nets devote at least three hours per week of educational programming aimed at children.

[edit] Notable programming

Yo. Could someone try to do something with the "notable programming" section that isn't a list of TV shows and isn't relentlessly POV? I'm at a loss, but I think it's an important element. jengod 09:58, Mar 31, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Syndication

N.B. The Independent TV and Syndication section has significant inaccuracies -- e.g., the claim that syndication as a business model is dead. The problem may have been trying to lump these two topics together. I plan on addressing this as soon as I can, but I wanted to at least make a mention of the problem. --Macchiato 21:13, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Timing

Looking at both this, and the "television schedule" pages, something is still confusing me. An example from this article is:

prime time begins at 8 p.m. (7 p.m. CST and MST)

If a programme is being aired nationally at 8pm ET, wouldn't that be 6pm MT and 5pm PT? Particularly for the pages on the schedules listing the times as Eastern and Pacific but listing only one time. Chris talk back 03:04, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Actually that's the custom. Prerecorded television programs often air at slightly different times in different markets in order to accommodate the typical daily routine. Most United States residents live in the Eastern or Pacific time zones. This also explains the slightly later broadcast time for coastal viewers: commutes may be longer in urban zones.
So the television program you describe would air simultaneously in the Eastern and Central time zones, one hour later in the Mountain time zone, and three hours later in the Pacific time zone. It may seem confusing to an outsider but within the country this is such a longstanding convention that people rarely think twice about it. Durova 11:07, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup

I have prepared a cleaned-up version of the article at User:Mwalcoff/Television in the United States. Please respond here with what you think. You'll notice that I removed some extraneous things, such as the history of children's TV (which should go in another article) but kept other sections verbatim. If no one objects over the next week or so, I'll use it to replace the current version. -- Mwalcoff 05:10, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you.

I love this. Going to this page helped me to do my homework for my Television Produtions class. Thank you. Lindsey M.

I love this. Going to this page helped me finish up a class project for Television Class. Thank You. Brianna D.

[edit] DuMont?

When reading this article, people may think the DuMont Television Network never existed...--Julián Ortega - drop me a message 23:47, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] News article that might fit here

For consideration for inclusion...

--User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 10:09, 12 June 2008 (UTC)