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Violence sells and money talks.
However, by directing the Federal Communications Commission to define both violent programming and the 'safe harbor' time period, this bill takes the first step toward protecting America's children from excessive and gratuitous violence on television. The proposed legislation would direct the FCC to determine whether the TV industry's voluntary rating system and V-chip technology are doing their job. We think the V-chip solution coupled with the ratings system is serving American parents well. Unfortunately, several studies have shown that they aren't. A 1999 study by the Kaiser Family Foundation shows that less than half of all the rating symbols can be defined accurately by a majority of parents.