Atresmedia’s website uses a rating colour and number code, but in the case of children’s programming the “Not suitable for children under 7 years of age” symbol is used, while the TV broadcast uses the rating number (7) appears over a blue background, following the guiding criteria of the Self-regulation Code. For its part, RTVE has unified the rating symbols it uses on the TV broadcasts and the corporate website. The two regional TV networks that offer rating information on the corporate websites (Canal Sur and the channels of the Catalan Radio and Television Corporation) use the same rating symbols used in the broadcast signal, based on the criteria of the Self-regulation Code. However, in the Catalan Corporation programmes are rated according to the following age criteria: . As we can see, based on the recommendation of the Audiovisual Council of Catalonia, the Catalan public television corporation incorporates a new symbol ( ) to label certain programmes recommended for children. The analysis of the websites of the audiovisual groups shows that Mediaset and the regional television corporation from Catalonia use the “Not suitable for children under 13 years of age” symbol ( ), although the updated version of the Self-regulation Code of 2011 replaced this recommendation with the “Not suitable for children under 12 years of age” rating ( ). In the case of the Galician and Basque television corporations (TVG and ETB, respectively), they did not incorporated rating information. In the first case, it was due to the aforementioned failure in the broadcasting software and in the second due to maintenance of the computer system. 4.4.3. Labelling in the broadcast teletext At the time of the study, all the television channels had incorporated the rating information of their programmes in the broadcast teletext, with the exception of ETB and TVG. The representative of Atresmedia pointed out that this television group also includes this rating information in press releases about the programming.
4.5. Rating decisions and TV networks Although the analysis of the responses of the panel of experts showed that there is unanimity across TV networks about the person or department, responsible for the rating and labelling of broadcast programmes, the responses to the questionnaire and the telephone interview with experts revealed that most TV networks choose a Committee of people linked to the areas of content, programming and production, as shown in
Table 2. In TVE, the labelling of the programming
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