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A content rating (also known as maturity rating) [1] [2] rates the suitability of TV shows, movies, comic books, or video games to this primary targeted audience. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] A content rating usually places a media source into one of a number of different categories, to show which age group is suitable to view media and entertainment.
In 2013, the MPA ratings were visually redesigned, with the rating displayed on a left panel and the name of the rating shown above it. A larger panel on the right provides a more detailed description of the film's content and an explanation of the rating level is placed on a horizontal bar at the bottom of the rating.
Films with this rating may be sold without any age restriction provided they do not contain any material "evidently harmful to the development of children and youths". [55] The FSK rating also limits the time of the day in which the movie may be aired on free-to-air TV stations to a time frame between 22:00 (FSK 16) or 23:00 (FSK 18) and 6:00.
A television content rating system in Brazil was implemented following a consultation in 2006. [6] Since then, the television networks themselves rate the shows, while the indicative rating (Portuguese: Classificação Indicativa) judges the content to guarantee that the rating is appropriate for that specific show. [7]
Some programs may voluntarily display a disclaimer regarding the show's objectionable content with the TV rating prior to the program starting, along with audibly repeating the same, with the reason for the rating (e.g. suggestive dialogue, drug and alcohol abuse, language, sexual situations, violence, nudity) and strongly cautioning parents to ...
A rating system can be any kind of rating applied to a certain application domain. They are often created using a rating scale. Examples include: Motion picture content rating system. Motion Picture Association film rating system; Canadian motion picture rating system; Television content rating system; Video game content rating system; DC ...
Media content ratings systems are organizations which pass judgment on the appropriateness of some material for certain audiences, especially certain age groups. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Media content ratings systems .
The United States pay television content advisory system is a television content rating system developed cooperatively by the American pay television industry; it first went into effect on March 1, 1994, on cable-originated premium channels owned by the system's principal developers, Home Box Office, Inc. and Showtime Networks.