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    "ocrText": "Page 8\nFederal News Service, MARCH 1, 1996\nthe media who are here, yesterday we heard for two hours from a remarkable\nassemblage of people who are involved in the television industry, and of people\nwho broadcast the programs.\nWe heard from cable people; we heard from the people who write the programs,\npeople who represent the actors, the producers. It was an amazing assemblage of\npeople who got together and came to Washington to announce that they had decided\nto develop a rating system for television programs like the movie rating\nsystems, and that, as the vice president, that that would be able to be used\nthen when the V- chip becomes available in television.\nNow the V-chip, of course, will -- will start coming in, in televisions, in a\ncouple of years. And we replace about 25 million televisions a year, I think,\nin America, so it will quickly be a fixture in a significant percentage of\nAmerica's televisions. But the rating system, prestimably, will still be helpful\nfor parents even before they have the V-chip.\nI -- we wanted to have you in here today because we want to get a feel and we\nwant the country to get a feel for what kinds of things parents and -- feel\nabout this rating system and the V-chip, what the young people feel about it,\nwhat you expect out of it, what you think it will do, what won't it do, what\nwould you like to see, how would you like to see it work. And of course, we\nhave some advocates and professionals here who can talk about the impact of this\non on child-rearing in America and on childhood.\nI -- I must tell you, this is going to be a very complicated and difficult thing\nfor these people in television to do, in the sense that they have -- there are\nmany, many thousands of -- tens of thousands of programs on all these television\nstations, and as we get more cable channels, they will multiply exponentially,\nso the -- the job of rating them is very different from the job of rating a\ncouple thousand movies a year.\nSo as they undertake this task, I think it's important for -- for the people in\nthe entertainment industry and the public at large to get just a feel for how\nparents and -- and -- feel about it, how young people feel about it, and kind of\nhow it should proceed, because because they've committed to have this done by\nthe first of next year -- no later than the first of next year, and perhaps\nsooner.\nSo we really just felt we ought to have this conversation today, and we thank\nyou for joining us. And maybe we ought to start with you, Mrs. Sompton (sp).\nIf you could tell the press -- everybody, if you could tell the press your name\nwhen you speak and then we'll -- and how you happen to be here.\nBARBARA SOMPTON (sp) My name is Barbara Sompton (sp). I've got two kids,\nMichael Eisenbray (sp) 11, and Rebecca Eisenbray, 8. And I'm here because I've\nbeen active with the PTA and I was asked to come here today.\nI think it is fabulous that the industry has agreed to put in this rating\nsystem. I was growing up on Long Island. There were, I think, seven TV\nchannels. And now, as the president said, it's impossible to probably count how\nmany there are. It's impossible for a parent to hope to screen what's on\ntelevision today. And it would be so helpful to be able to have the rating\nsystem that I now use for the movies, because -- especially with younger\nchildren, and I know it changes as your children get to be teenagers. But I can\nsay to my children, \"You don't watch movies that are PG-13.\" We don't have to\ntalk about it. You know, those are off of the screen, off of the table. We\ndon't have to talk about those, okay. So maybe we'll talk about what we do see,\nbut we don't have to talk about those.\nI think it's fabulous that they're going to start rating even before the V-chip\nis available because parents can use that rating as a tool and the V-chip as a"
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