The almighty Parents Television Council and its 1.3 million members sent letters to every NBC affiliate to tell them they cannot program The Playboy Club.
Tim Winter, the PTC uptight president, told the stations the show was putting a "veneer of sophistication" on the pornography industry. "I am writing to urge you to preempt the program in your community". He also said individual members asking stations about the show had received what he called "canned responses" in support of "a sophisticated series about the transitional times of the early 1960s and the complex lives of a group of working-class women". Tim Winter also warned stations that if they did air the show, the Parents Television Council would be watching and would urge members to file complaints with the FCC if anything was indecent.
One NBC affiliate, KSL Salt Lake City, has announced that it would preempt the show, a point Winter made in his pitch to other stations to follow suit. KSL, which is owned by Deseret Media Companies (which, in turn, is owned by the Mormon Church), said last month that the Playboy brand did not fit with the station's brand.
Source : Broadcastingcable.
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