MTV should publicly promise that its upcoming Sunday Video...
MTV should publicly promise that its upcoming Sunday Video Music Awards show will be rated appropriately and won’t contain “explicit sexual content,” said the Parents Television Council in a recent letter to the network, in a news release Monday (http://bit.ly/1uOoA86).…
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Last year’s VMA show was rated TV-14, but included a performance by singers Miley Cyrus and Robin Thicke that was “sexually charged,” PTC said. “Such a rating was simply unacceptable to the families who depend on the television ratings system to be applied accurately and to the millions of families whose children are marketed to by MTV,” said the letter. Along with not including sexualized content and being rated correctly, this year’s VMAs should also abide by MTV and parent company Viacom’s own standards and practices, to avoid the “public relations kerfuffle” caused by last year’s show, PTC said. Viacom had no immediate comment.