parents tv.org, you can see the report yourself, david shepardson is with thomson reuters. thank you, gentlemen. >> guest: thank you. >> thanks. in. >> c-span, created by america's cable television companies and brought to you as a public service by your cable or satellite provider. >> today voice of america director amanda bennett delivers keynote remarks at a leadership forum hosted by the usc an nonburg center. there is her first public appearance since being sworn in. live coverage at 12:10 p.m. eastern here on c-span2. >>> immigration and customs enforcement director sarah saldana testified before the house oversight and government reform committee. members questioned her about why those convicted of violent offenses were released back into the u.s. rather than deported to their country of origin. this portion of the hearing is almost three hours. >> the committee will come to order, and without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. preparing for this hearing has, i'm telling you, it's hard to keep your cool in preparing for this meeting.

. >> host: let's bring david shepardson and it is conversation a reporter for thompson reuters. >> guestese days or the networks are not interested in having that kind of programming? >> guest: we are using the -- almost a decade since we keffalas regularly scheduled series rated chi. we have a new one. it's on nbc and it is winning its time slot every single sunday night. it ensures there's a market for family-friendly, as long as it's well produced and good production value. there's a huge market for this. i think the networks tend to, i spent 15 years myself at nbc. i don't know anybody who intentionally tries to hurt children or tries to just push it for pushing sake. when they see something that's out there that successfully try to made it more edgy and more provocative than they have gotten away from broadcasting the word broad, broad market in the fort meade pg has become a dinosaur and tell unfortunately recently. >> guest: consumers have so many options already for mark's position as the networks felt pressured to maybe compete more directly with the cable shows. >> guest: it's

he's join by david shepardson, reporter for thompson roiter. >> there is actually no show on broadcastelevision, no series on broadcast television today that is rated appropriate for anything older than children. tv 14 is the oldest rating. even most explicit content on prime time broadcast tv is rated as appropriate for children to watch. we learned that the tv networks themselves rate the shows and we learned that the tv advertisers who pat bills for the networks rely on the ratings just like parents do. and so there is a conflict of interest in terms of rating content accurately, allow the advertisers won't sponsor mature audience only content, therefore, the tv networks don't rate anything as appropriate for mature audiences. and the system is incapable of doing as it was intended. >> watch the communicators tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span2. >> next, a discussion of the economic consequences of the criminal justice system with officials from the obama administrati administration journalists and economies. it ran an hour and 45 minutes. >> all right. good morning, welcome to the w