Broadcast Networks Bringing TV Ratings to Online Content

LOS ANGELES: ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC, along with TeleFutura, Telemundo and Univision, are applying their TV content ratings to the online delivery of shows, starting in December 2012.

Parents will be able to use the TV ratings system that usually appears in the upper left-hand corner of the TV screen for the programming children are streaming on the Internet. The networks are planning to make the ratings information available for all full-length entertainment programs that stream on the websites they control. Each company will have its own system. The ratings will appear at the beginning of full-length videos and also in the online programming descriptions. Network websites will include or link to the ratings system info.