Prime Time Nudity Increasing at Alarming Rate, Warns TV Watchdog Group
Nudity on television increased by over 400 percent during the 2011-2012 broadcast season compared to the previous year, announced the Parents Television Council (PTC), citing its latest research. The TV watchdog group, which monitors network programming for objectionable content, found that on shows running from September 1 to May 31, there were no less than 76 incidents of full nudity on 37 shows, compared to 15 incidents in 14 shows the previous year — an increase of an astounding 407 percent.
Responding to the findings, PTC's president Tim Winter penned a letter to key U.S. Congress members urging them to pressure the the Federal Communications Commission(FCC) to move ahead with its log-jam of some 1.6 million decency complaints filed by citizens and groups over the past several years. Winter noted that his group's study found a trend among broadcasters toward more full-frontal nudity, full...
Kevin Swanson | 10/4/2012
