CSUN HOSTING DEBATE OVER TV CONTENT RATINGS.California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an , is getting into the TV ratings debate. Some have criticized the industry's age-based guidelines, which are being tested pending approval by the Federal Communications Commission Federal Communications Commission (FCC), independent executive agency of the U.S. government established in 1934 to regulate interstate and foreign communications in the public interest. , as being too vague. On Tuesday, a free public symposium, ``The Television Rating System: Sense or Censorship,'' will begin at 7 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center A performing arts center, often abbreviated PAC, is a multi-use performance space that can be adapted for use by various types of the performing arts, including dance, music and theatre. of the University Student Union, 18111 Nordhoff St. The ratings will be the subject of a congressional hearing Congressional hearings are the principal formal method by which committees collect and analyze information in the early stages of legislative policymaking. Whether confirmation hearings — a procedure unique to the Senate — legislative, oversight, investigative, or a Thursday. CSUN's panel discussion will be moderated by Furnell Chatman of Channel 4 News and will include William Blinn, chairman of the Caucus caucus: see convention. for Writers, Producers and Directors; actor-producer Nancy Malone Nancy Malone (born March 19, 1935) is an American television actress, principally in guest roles from the 1950s to 1970s, who moved into producing and directing in the 1980s and 1990s. She played "Libby" on the TV series Naked City from 1960 to 1963. ; and others. Jack Valenti of the Motion Picture Association of America, who heads the industry group that devised the TV ratings, and Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., who has spoken out against the new system, will not attend. Both are planning to send videotaped messages that will be shown during the program. Meanwhile, the ratings have been picked up by cable television's Prevue Channel, an on-air TV listing service that displays upcoming programming on other channels 90 minutes in advance. The ratings had been available only by watching the first 15 seconds of a show, when an icon was posted in the top left-hand corner of the television screen. Now, channel surfers and other people who join shows well after the 15-second mark can determine a show's rating by tuning to the Prevue Channel while the show is on the air. Madeleine Forrer, vice president and senior product manager at the Prevue Channel, said the station is running a promotional spot touting touting the making of personal representations by a veterinarian to persons who are not clients in an attempt to solicit their business. the ratings every 10 minutes. About one-third to one-half of cable shows are being rated by their stations, Forrer said. ``We're just committed to putting on all of the information that is provided to us,'' she said. ``We're going to pass it along.'' |
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