A New TV Programme Rating System For Thailand

[Jai Dee]

Culture Watch Centre designs a TV rating system

Culture Watch Centre has designed a TV rating system to make viewers know which programmes are suitable for children or adults.

Centre director Ladda Tangsupachai (ลัดดา ตั้งสุภาชัย) said the symbol Por (ป) means the TV content is suitable for primary age children or those between 3 and 5 years old.

Ror (ร) is for programmes suitable for school-age children between 5 and 13 years old.

Thor (ท) is designed for programmes suitable for tbe general audience.

Nor (น) means parental guidance suggested and this rating is used for content appropriate for people aged 13 to 18.

Phor (ผ) is for programmes for adults.

Mrs Ladda said the centre will also open a website, www.me.org.th, for viewers to post their comments about TV programmes.

Source: Thai National News Bureau Public Relations Department - 04 August 2006

[jimbob]

Hmmm......

My rating system for Thai TV goes like this:

Crap

Awful

Dire

What the f%$?

[sriracha john]

Geez...

Our cable company ALREADY STOPPED it's Tuesday late-night showing of fully nud_e karoke song videos... what MORE do the conservatives want?

[tuky]

Phor (ผ) is for programmes for adults

Lets hope they start to realise that adults (even teens) don't need cigarettes and bottles of plonk pixelated, ผ might be a good place to start.

[sriracha john]

Phor (ผ) is for programmes for adults

Lets hope they start to realise that adults (even teens) don't need cigarettes and bottles of plonk pixelated, ผ might be a good place to start.

A screen capture of a recent Thai television soap opera clearly shows the actor holding a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other while he talks to the nearby nud_e actress who reaches for a gun on the nightstand.

[astral]

Ratings are all very well, but how will they stop the little darlings from watching.

It is interesting to compare the programmes available in Thailand with those available in the strict muslim countries of the Middle East.

Thailand has far more censorship.................

[ratcatcher]

Culture Watch Centre designs a TV rating system

Culture Watch Centre has designed a TV rating system to make viewers know which programmes are suitable for children or adults.

Centre director Ladda Tangsupachai (ลัดดา ตั้งสุภาชัย) said the symbol Por (ป) means the TV content is suitable for primary age children or those between 3 and 5 years old.

Ror (ร) is for programmes suitable for school-age children between 5 and 13 years old.

Thor (ท) is designed for programmes suitable for tbe general audience.

Nor (น) means parental guidance suggested and this rating is used for content appropriate for people aged 13 to 18.

Phor (ผ) is for programmes for adults.

Mrs Ladda said the centre will also open a website, www.me.org.th, for viewers to post their comments about TV programmes.

Source: Thai National News Bureau Public Relations Department - 04 August 2006

Just about everything on Thai TV at the moment is aimed at the 5 to 13 year olds. There are few knowledge,information shows like National Geographic or some of the Discovery channel shows, just mindless game shows,variety shows featuring bizarely dressed males,females and token katoey or soap operas usually featuring filthy rich Thais with family disorders screaming at each other or the other end of the scale,desperately poor Isan types in tin shacks with family disorders screamng at each other. Hey it's just like the soaps in the west.

[PREM-R]

Dead Bodies....Blood.....Violence........Guns.......

What Code does the 5.30 pm news on channel 3 carry