PTC Asks CBS Stations To Preempt 'Swingtown'
PTC Cites Dexter, MMA Fights In Raising Concerns Over CBS.
By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 6/9/2008 5:09:00 PM
The Parents Television Council has urged stations to preempt CBS' new couples-swapping drama Swingtown. It joins the American Family Association in calling on stations to pass on the show, which debuted last week.
“The CBS Television Network appears determined to reinvent itself as a cable network," said PTC President Tim Winter. He also complained when CBS aired the off-cable Dexter, taking the opportunity Monday to renew that criticism and add CBS' new EliteXC Saturday Night Fights to the list of shows that concerned the group.
"They [CBS] also appear determined to ignore common sense broadcast decency standards," said Winter in a statement Monday. "We are asking all CBS affiliates to consider pre-empting this show or to air it later in the evening if they believe the show’s content is not compatible with their community standards of decency."
It was PTC’s campaign complaining about CBS’ Janet Jackson Super Bowl half-time reveal that helped push that issue onto the front pages.
B&C received several e-mails over the past few days from what appeared to be the American Family Association (formerly the National Federation For Decency), asking that we [mistaken for a TV station] "refuse to air the show," as well as a similar letter from someone identifying herself as a member of the Center For Moral Clarity in Ohio.
B&C confirmed that AFA has launched such a campaign, but the Moral Clarity group had not returned a call at press time.
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Look dude, I live on the South Side and have seen worse! Did you even bother to read my post? I'm not defending the program... Just pointing out the hypocrisy of the PTC. I don't see them marching on the streets of Chicago protesting gun violence (they wouldn't care, anyway.) The PTC is nothing but a bunch of whiny losers who only care about "the children" when it can net them some headlines. Plus, If you don't like it, then turn it off. How hard is that to understand? Don't you lay your "immoral", religious mumbo-jumbo on me. And I'm Catholic, so don't even go there.
T Dog - 6/9/2008 11:13:00 PM EDT -
You are defending WHAT? A trashy concept sure to validify the worst stereotypes of the "immoral" mass media? Who dares raise first amendment issues to defend K*rap like this? Just what is Les Moonves thinking these days? Katie stays and swingers rule primetime: The saccharin and the profane...
Adam Smith - 6/9/2008 10:44:00 PM EDT -
The PTC is concerned about the MMA fights? Oh yeah, then maybe they should ban Rays-Red Sox baseball games from the air, too. The PTC and the rest of these right-wing groups are nothing but a bunch of hypocrites.
T Dog - 6/9/2008 9:31:00 PM EDT
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