Almost every TV broadcast network saw a marked decrease in sexual content during the evening "family hour" between 1998 and 2002, the Parents Television Council reports

Christian Century, June 14, 2003

* Almost every TV broadcast network saw a marked decrease in sexual content during the evening "family hour" between 1998 and 2002, the Parents Television Council reports. Except for WB, every broadcast network decreased its sexual content from 8 to 9 P.M. in recent years. All networks except WB and UPN also showed a reduction in such content from 9 to 10 P.M.

"For years, conventional wisdom in Hollywood had it that 'sex sells,'" said L. Brent Bozell, president of the Los Angeles--based council. "But ratings data and survey results prove that's not true."