Self-regulation and television advertising

Media owners and managers possess great power to select (and reject) advertising submissions. Regardless of the directives (or absence) of any self-regulation code, no television station must accept any commercial advertising it does not wish to carry. This study requested descriptions of the standards, guidelines and day-to-day concerns from U.S. commercial broadcast stations, asking the policies, procedures and nature of standards for deciding which commercials are acceptable for broadcast.