BBC/ITC Research Into Violence On TV

A study into violence on television which was commissioned by the BBC and ITC and undertaken by the University of Sheffield, has revealed that violence on terrestrial television accounts for 0.61% of programme output time, compared with 1.1% in 1986. The study found that most violence takes place in feature films, accounting for 53% of all violence in output. Other drama accounts for 17%, of which home produced programming contains less than acquired programmes/series. Most violence in programmes occurs after the Watershed.

Of the eight channels sampled, more than 2,000 programmes were found to contain some violence under the criteria, representing 37% of the programmes monitored. Terrestrial Containing Violence Satellite Containing Violence BBC1 27% of programmes Sky One 37% of programmes BBC2 23% of programmes UK Gold 38% of programmes ITV 29% of programmes Sky Movies 79% of programmes C4 30% of programmes Movie Channel 81% of programmes

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