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(Recommendations & Warnings) |
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(Who Decides?) |
| Movies/ Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) Ratings | G: General
Audiences PG: Parental Guidance Suggested PG-13: Parents Strongly Cautioned R: Restricted NC-17: No One 17 and under admitted |
None; reasons for ratings of recent films available at www.mpaa.org | Assigned by paid panel of parents; possibility of appeal to Industry Panel |
| TV/ TV Parental
Guidelines (V-chip
ratings)
*[Material in brackets not usually given with ratings]
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TV-Y: [All
Children]* TV-Y7: [Directed to Older Children] TV-G: [General Audience] TV-PG: [Parental Guidance Suggested] TV-14: [Parents Strongly Cautioned] TV-MA: [Mature Audiences Only] |
V: [Violence]*
S: [Sex] L: [Coarse Language] D: [Sexual Dialog or Innuendo] FV: [Fantasy Violence] |
Self-assigned by producer or distributor; designed to be applied to all programming except news and sports. |
| TV/ "E/I" Educational/Informational Programming | E/I (Various icons and indicators for different stations) | None | Self-Assigned by television station |
| Music Advisories | Parental Advisory: Explicit Content | None | Self-assigned by producer or distributor |
| Video Games/ Electronic Software Ratings Board (ESRB) Ratings | eC: Early
Childhood: Ages 3+ E: Everyone: Ages 6+ E10+: Everyone 10 and older T: Teen: Ages 13+ M: Mature: Ages 17+ Ao: Adults Only |
Variety of phrases, e.g., "animated violence," "comic mischief," "strong language," "mature sexual themes." | Assigned by Rating Board based on submitted tape and questionnaire |
| Arcade Games/ Parental Advisory System | None | Animated Violence,
Life-like Violence, Sexual
Content Language (three levels of each: green: "suitable for everyone"; yellow: "mild"; red: "strong") |
Self-assigned by producer or distributor |
| Internet Sites/ Recreational Software Advisory Council (RSACi) Ratings; Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA) | None | Violence, Nudity, Sex, Offensive Language (levels for each or the presence of specific elements and context features) | Computer-generated rating based on self-report questionnaire by producer |