Family and Consumer Choice Act of 2007

Central and Mountain time zones), any indecent type of program, including programs rated "TV-14" or "TV-MA" under the TV Parental Guidelines, may not be broadcast. Lipinski has stated that it will provide parents, who are "the first line of defense in protecting their kids... more help".^[1] Currently, all cable television operators in the United States

Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet. No actions was taken since then, and the bill was never passed by the House.^[2]

Parents Television Council launched campaigns against indecency on television – both broadcast and cable. The Council released in November 2004 a study^[3] stating that there was a significant increase sex, profanity, and violence on basic cable television channels, using that study as well as numerous future press releases and reports in their push for à la carte cable offerings.^[4] PTC President Tim Winter also wrote an article arguing that cable choice would not only benefit families, but also the general public because cable television subscribers who do not have children would also have the choice not to pay for channels for younger audiences.^[5] PTC president L. Brent Bozell III wrote a similar op-ed for USA Today in April 2005.^[6]

indecency that Comcast and Time Warner "have designed these family tiers to fail, because they would like nothing better than for the family tier concept to fail so they could claim after the fact that no demand exists for a different way of doing business in the cable industry." He later went on to claim that "cable channel choice to America's families ... is the only option available that creates a real[ly] free market in the cable industry."^[9] In February of that year, the PTC praised a report by the Federal Communications Commission for supporting à la carte cable subscriptions.^[10] In July, the PTC met with Congressmen Dan Lipinski and Tom Osborne to support cable choice legislation.^[11]

Morality in Media.^[12] Additionally, Frederick S. Lane expressed support for cable choice in his 2006 book The Decency Wars: The Campaign to Cleanse American Culture, although expressing doubt that it would make a negative impact on channels that the PTC has deemed offensive, such as MTV and Comedy Central, claiming that those networks would continue to have plentiful viewership while religious channels would decline.^[13]

A&E Network, and Comedy Central's "Dirty Dozen" block of its hit animated comedy series South Park, where the network would air the most profane, vulgar episodes of the series, including "The Death Camp of Tolerance" and "It Hits the Fan".^[14]

Consumers Union.^[16] Alabama Congressman Robert Aderholt supports this bill.^[17]

V-Chip are readily available to most parents.^[18] Religious televangelists Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson have also opposed the concept of cable choice from the very beginning because they felt that viewership for their cable programs would decline.^[13][19]