Complaints about the violent nature of three American wrestling programmes that were broadcast 
at 20:00 and 20:30 respectively by e-tv. All three programmes carried a PG10V advisory. The Tribunal followed a previous adjudication of the BCCSA that violence in these wrestling programmes was not gratuitous but that the violence was actually the reason for the existence of these programmes. It was also found that these programmes do not constitute the sanctioning, promotion or glamorization of violence. Although the Tribunal shares the complainants’ concern about the influence of violence on the youth, it cannot make a finding in this respect because no conclusive evidence exists to substantiate the influence of violence on television on the youth. In the end it remains the duty of parents and care givers to exercise control over the children’s television viewing habits. No contravention of the Code was found and the complaints are not upheld.
