In February 1996, in response to public pressure, the television industry agreed to come up with a television rating system -- to give parents more information about the TV shows their kids watch. On December 18, the television industry released its idea -- they recommended an age-based system. All television programs would be rated according to six age categories: TV-Y, TV-Y7, TV-G, TV-PG, TV-14, and TV-M. The children's advocacy community recommended an objective system to give parents specific descriptive information about the content of the shows. Each show would be rated on a simple, numerical scale indicating the level of V [violence], S [sex] and L [adult language]. Rather than relying on the subjective judgments of TV producers, parents would have the information they need to make their own decisions about what is appropriate for their kids.
             The two shows I have chosen to watch are Batman, the older version and the Rugrats a kid's television show on Nickelodeon. Their two ratings were TV-PG (Batman) and TV-G ( Rugrats).
             The ratings applied to these shows were accurate for what they showed. For the Rugrats the show has kids getting themselves into mischief mostly this is why the show has a TV-G rating because little kids could get ideas from show. As for Batman in my opinion should have a higher rating, the reason for this is that Batman has a lot of violence involved with its show, thus the TV-PG rating, so parental guidance is needed for this show. The only problem is that it has no sexual activity or bad language, it is bad enough for a PG but I don't think it is bad enough for a TV-14. Both shows meet the required rating guidelines.
             The ratings as far as being appropriate were good. As far as the material being to mature for the age group, I don't think it was but what you cannot control is the fact that older people sometimes watch shows that are for younger people. The rating system is to mostl...