The Sour Family Hour: 8 to 9 Goes from Bad to Worse
Parents Television Council

Family-hour programming as a whole was adult-oriented five and a half years ago, and subsequent PTC studies have found that it became increasingly offensive over the rest of the e90s and, as will be detailed below, in the early e00s. There's no especially compelling reason to think this decline will be stopped, let alone reversed, any time soon. Even though most broadcast-network programming in the 8 p.m. hour isn't suitable for children (the PTCfs Family Guide to Prime Time Television deemed only about 12 percent of last seasonfs family-hour programs appropriate for all ages) Nielsen figures indicate that more than ten million of them, on average, are in front of the set at that hour, and that many of them are watching exceptionally raunchy shows.


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