New Study of Sexual Content on TV to Be Released by the Kaiser Family Foundation

New Study of Sexual Content on TV to Be Released by the Kaiser Family Foundation

Amid the ongoing concern about teen sexual activity and the debate about broadcast indecency, the Kaiser Family Foundation will release a new study about the sexual content on TV and host a roundtable discussion featuring top TV executives, federal regulators, adolescent health experts, and Hollywood writers on Wednesday, November 9, in Washington, D.C.

Senator Barack Obama will give a keynote speech to kick-off the panel discussion.

What: The release of "Sex on TV 4," a biennial study of the amount and nature of sexual content on television and a panel discussion on teens, sex, and TV. The presentation and panel will explore issues such as:

-- What percentage of shows include sexual content?
-- What proportion of shows include a reference to safer sex or the risks
and responsibilities of sexual activity?
-- How do shows popular with teens compare to other shows?
-- How has TV's depiction of sex changed over the past seven years?

Who: Drew Altman, Kaiser President and CEO will discus the implications of the findings and Vicky Rideout, who oversaw the study and is a Kaiser Vice President will present the detailed findings, followed by a discussion moderated by Jackie Judd, a Kaiser Vice President, featuring:

-- Kathleen Abernathy, Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission
-- Sarah Brown, Executive Director, National Campaign to Prevent Teen
Pregnancy
-- Rebecca Collins, Behavioral Scientists, RAND Corporation
-- Al Gough, Writer, Creator, and Producer, Smallville
-- Dale Kunkel, researcher on the study and a Professor at the University
of Arizona
-- Tony Vinciquerra, President and CEO, Fox Television Networks

When: Wednesday, November 9, 2005 from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. ET

Where: Barbara Jordan Conference Center, Kaiser Family Foundation Building, 1330 G Street, NW, Washington, D.C. (one block west of Metro Center)

RSVP: Tiffany Ford, 202-347-5270 or tford@kff.org

The Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit, private operating foundation dedicated to providing information and analysis on health care issues to policymakers, the media, the health care community, and the general public. The Foundation is not associated with Kaiser Permanente or Kaiser Industries.

For further information contact: Rob Graham or Sarah Williams Kingsley, 650-854-9400.

PRNewswire -- Nov. 1

Source: The Kaiser Family Foundation

Web site: http://www.kff.org/

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