July 18 2012 – Government censors will be implementing a “TV violence rating code” to get television networks to tone down graphic scenes of sex and violence in the news and other programs, while setting aside 15 percent of their airtime for “child-friendly” programming.
The Department of Education’s (DepEd) National Council for Children’s Television (NCCT) and the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) on Tuesday released the implementing rules and regulations of the Children’s Television Act, a 1997 law promoting child-friendly television programming.
MTRCB chairperson Grace Poe Llamanzares expressed alarm that children, who watch an average of 21 hours of TV per week, are exposed to up to 18,000 scenes of simulated murder by the time they turn 18. That is equivalent to 1,000 scenes per year or up to three scenes per day.
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