Exec to cable network: Screen explicit shows

THE Bacolod City Council, in an approved resolution, told Sky Cable Channel television to screen or prevent explicit shows from being shown to the general public.

Councilor Lyndon Caña, chairman of the committee on environment and ecology, said the cable network should install or make possible the installation of channel selection devices that would enable their clients from choosing channels they would like to watch.

Caña, in his resolution, said it has come to the attention of the City Council that some shows over SKY Cable TV are outrightly vulgar, immoral, and explicit.

The resolution said that "unlike in other places, like the US, there is no facility or device made available by this cable TV that would allow parents to lock or screen out undesirable shows especially from the access or view of their minor children."

It added that there is no doubt that the right to business and earn profit carries with it a corresponding social and moral obligation. (RLB) Sun Star