Want Raunch? Watch Cable

Basic cable’s 'raunchiness' factor -- profanity, sex and violence -- is more than double that of broadcast television in primetime, according to a study by a watchdog group released this week.

The Parents Television Council's analysis found that cable’s average per-hour rate of coarse language, lewd references and violence was 21.7, versus 9.8 for broadcast.

'These findings suggest that original primetime basic-cable series are, as a group, considerably raunchier than their broadcast-network counterparts,' the study concluded. 'The present generally sorry state of original primetime basic-cable series is not inevitable, but it will continue as long as the cable industry’s mind-set -- edgy equals entertaining, wholesome equals boring -- persists.'

Comedy Central’s animated South Park was crowned 'the most offensive series' overall, with its hourly average of 126 instances of profanity and violence.

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As long as they have the proper Ratings noted and parents turn on their Ratings locks, it shouldn't be a big an issue. But I do know way toooo many parents who don't know how (or care) to setup ratings locks or how to put the Net Nannys on the web browsers.

Almost every episode of South park has TV-14 & DLS ratings.

As long as my DBS receivers have ability to block channels and programming above a set rating limit, I don't worry about it at all.

Just fo the record I love South Park :)

Whats on U.S. Tv is tame in comparison to Canadian cable. Hey the OTA channels show nudity and profanity in Prime Time. The Sopranos was shown on CTV completely uncut which is an OTA channel. The gay channel Pridevision shows explicit hardcore stuff which even shocked me. The Sex channel shows softcore with nudity every night. T&A on TV here has become so completely normalized.

I know what you mean Ontarian. The TV here is nothing compared to what they have in Europe. Graphic nudity, violence and language are a normal occurance especially on German TV.