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Research

The PTC has published many highly acclaimed Special Reports, all of which received nationwide attention and sparked the current national debate concerning broadcast indecency, localism, cable a la carte, the television ratings system, and the absence of family programming.

Latest


03.02.06: Wolves in Sheep's Clothing: A Content Analysis of Children's Television

10.19,05: PTC Announces Top Ten Best/Worst TV Shows for Families

08.31.05: PTC Announces Top Ten Best/Worst Advertisers

08.11.05: I Want My Foul TV- More Evidence Proving Cable Industry Campaign to Promote Responsibility is a Sham

06.13.05: Father's Day Study: More TV Fathers are Involved in TV Family Life

04.18.05: The Ratings Sham: TV Executives Hiding Behind a System That Doesn't Work

02.01.05: MTV Smut Peddlers: Targeting Kids with Sex, Drugs and Alcohol

12.16.04: Faith in a Box - A Study on Entertainment Television and Religion

11.14.04: Basic Cable Awash in Raunch

08.26.04: Ay Caramba! Spanish-Language TV Just as Risqué as English-Language Fare

08.05.04: PTC Reveals 2004 Annual Top 10 Best and Worst Broadcast TV List

 

State of the Industry Reports


12.10.03: TV Bloodbath: Violence on Prime Time Broadcast TV

09.19.03: The Blue Tube: Foul Language on Prime Time Network TV

05.20.03: Sex Loses its Appeal: A State of the Industry Report on Sex on TV

 

Reports on Top 10 Best and Worst Shows on Primetime Network TV

 

Reports on Cable TV


08.11.05: I Want My Foul TV- More Evidence Proving Cable Industry Campaign to Promote Responsibility is a Sham

02.01.05: MTV Smut Peddlers: Targeting Kids with Sex, Drugs and Alcohol

11.14.04: Basic Cable Awash in Raunch

08.02.02: Top Ten Best & Worst Cable Shows of the 2001-2002 TV Season

01.28.02: Prime Time Cable TV Wired for Raunch

 

Reports on Reality TV


06.25.04: Reality TV: Race to the Bottom

10.03.02: Harsh Reality: Unscripted TV Reality Shows Offensive to Families

 

TV Ratings Reports


04.18.05: The Ratings Sham: TV Executives Hiding Behind a System That Doesn't Work

 

TV Advertisers Reports


08.31.05: PTC Announces Top Ten Best/Worst Advertisers

02.20.02: Top 10 Best and Worst Advertisers of 2001-2002

 

Other


06.13.05: Father's Day Study: More TV Fathers are Involved in TV Family Life

12.16.04: Faith in a Box - A Study on Entertainment Television and Religion

08.26.04: Ay Caramba! Spanish-Language TV Just as Risqué as English-Language Fare

02.03.04: Dereliction of Duty: How the Federal Communications Commission Has Failed the Public

10.29.03: Kids in the Crosshairs: Children Still Targeted in Marketing of Adult Rated Entertainment

07.25.03: May Sweeps Round-Up

06.12.03: Father Knows Best - Latest PTC Study Shows More Positive Treatment of TV Dads

09.22.99: How and Why Howard Stern's TV Show Failed