Technologie i telekomunikacja · 9.10.1997

Technical Requirements To Enable Blocking of Video Programming Based on Program Ratings

By this Notice of Proposed Rule Making (``NPRM''), the Commission proposes to amend its rules to require that most television receivers be equipped with features that enable viewers to block the display of video programming with a common rating. Furthermore, the Commission proposes to amend its rules to ensure the ratings information that is associated with a particular video program is not deleted from transmission by broadcast television stations, low power television stations, television translator and booster stations, and cable television systems. The Commission also proposes that similar requirements should be placed on other services that can be used to distribute video programming to the home, such as Multipoint Distribution Services (MDS) and Direct Broadcast Satellite Service (DBS). This action is taken in response to the Parental Choice in Television Programming requirements contained in section 551 (c), (d), and (e) of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (Pub. L. No. 104-104, 111 Stat. 56), which amended sections 303 and 330 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 303 and 330). The proposals contained in this NPRM are intended to give parents the ability to block vi