[mewzilla]

Parents should just buy/rent this stuff on video/DVD, then their kids can watch without commercials or cuts. Who needs networks?

[Onelifetogive]

TV's so-called family hour has been made meaningless by the networks for more than a decade now, and is even more quaint a concept in these days when NBC's worm-chewing, bile-spewing "Fear Factor" airs in the opening hour of prime time.

Gotta disagree on this one...

What is it about worm-chewing that is inappropriate for kids? My little girls love that show. It's about the ONLY think they are allowed to watch. I don't mind them seeing tough girls, beating the guys, overcoming their fears...

[Flux Capacitor]

Meanwhile, ABC busily prepares programming to round out its schedule for the week of next summer's Democratic convention....

-Dan

[Irene Adler]

I find off-color programing promos offensive during any programming. They give the lie to the "So, just don't watch!" position espoused by so many. You don't know when they are coming, so you can't avoid them (the coarseness and stupidity of such promos that I have seen bother me at least as much the off-color element).

[Pietro]

ABC is owned by Disney, go figure.

[kidd]

Best Christmas cartoon ever made.

Its scriptural, its funny, the Vince Guiaraldi music is great and its a tradition.

Glad I have it on DVD.

[cspackler]

I also heard a rumor that the broadcast was edited this year to remove a religious reference. Anyone else hear this one? Just asking...

[sonofatpatcher2]

Did I miss this while watching "The Simple Life?"

[DustyMoment]

Hmmm, lessee now. ABC, owned by Disney.

No, nothing family-oriented here.

Keep changing the channel.

[Cicero]

I've never felt I could stop my kids from watching TV, because otherwise they'd just go over to a friend's house and watch. But I do lay in a lot of videos, in hopes they'll watch them instead. That works to a degree. The last few years they have hardly been watching any regular TV, partly, I think, because so little is worth watching from any point of view.

[rightwingreligiousfanatic]

This is a very irritating occurrence which I find happening more and more often. Especially on sporting events, which I would like to be able to watch occasionally with my son. All of a sudden, and before you can even react to it, you are being assaulted with SEX, SEX, SEX, VIOLENCE, VIOLENCE, VIOLENCE, eerie, creepy, evil, perverted situations, etc. etc.

I am torn between either blowing up my TV, or going the full DVD route... Oh yeah, I'm a Lord of the Rings fan.... I guess I'll have to go the DVD route.... ;^)

[JoJo Gunn]

I noted how at least twice during the Jennings special on the Kennedy assassination ABC ran ads for a show called "In The line Of Fire".

[sasafras]

ABC is a trash network but not much different than CBS or NBC. Most of the commmercials are actually worse than the shows being aired. It is getting pretty bad.