Saturday, October 6, 2012

11 Things We Learned From A New Study Of LGBT Characters On Television

Buzzfeed  "GLAAD identifies the best and worst of the record-breaking 2012-2013 season."  Be careful when you tell your kids to go to their room and watch TV. This is not 
our father's TV schedule.
Here is the list as pulled from the Buzzfeed page:
1. Overall, the 2012-2013 season has the highest-ever percentage of LGBT characters.

2. Of the broadcast networks, ABC has the highest percentage of gay characters.

3. Those four CBS characters appear on "The Good Wife," "Two And A Half Men" and the new show "Partners.

4. Fox has the only transgender regular character on broadcast TV. (photo, right)

5. On broadcast TV, 78 percent of all characters are white.

6. This year, Latino characters decreased from to 5.6 to 4.1 percent of all characters.

7. And there are only four characters on broadcast TV with disabilities — that's 0.6 percent.

8. Male characters also outnumber female characters, 55.5 to 44.5 percent.

9. Of the cable networks, Showtime has the highest number of LGBT characters: 12.

10. TeenNick (left) has the only transgender character on cable TV.

11. And "True Blood" is the most inclusive show on cable, with six LGBT characters.

Antenna TV  is one place you can seek refuge with your family.

Want to know how bad today's TV is? Well,Benny Hill is one of the channels carried here, but my favorite is and always will be Jack Benny.

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