Roku SDK Documentation : Roku Search

Table of Contents

Roku Search provides another way to convert Roku users into customers of your VOD channel, besides the Roku Channel Store. Roku Search is located on the main menu of the Roku home-screen, and allows Roku users to search for a particular movie, TV show/special, or actor/actress/director. Roku Search then allows users to see a list of providers and launch the provider's channel and go directly to the selected piece of content.

By participating in the Roku Search program, all of your content that matches any search, and your channel, is offered automatically to all Roku users who use Roku Search and can use your channel. (Search results are not shown outside the country specified)

After completing a search, the user can also add the results to My Feed, which provides updates on the content they have expressed an interest in previously.

Roku Search is only available in English, and only available in the U.S., Canada (English only), Ireland and the U.K. Roku Search only supports full-length movies and TV series, episodes, and specials. Roku Search does not support short-form or clip content.

Roku Search Algorithm

The algorithm for Roku Search is:

A user selects Search from the Roku home-screen main menu.
The user is presented with a keypad to enter a search string and a panel of search results. Initially, the user also is presented with a list of previous search results. The user does have the option of clearing their search history.
As the user enters the search string, the system suggests search results from the Roku Search database that match. The user can select any search result at any time.
After the user selects an actor or a director, a list of content titles that were done by that person appear.
After the user selects a title then a content details screen will appear. The user can also select a title directly in step #3. This screen has a list of providers.
If the title is a series then a list of seasons appears. Once the user selects a season then a list of providers will appear.
Once the user selects a provider, that provider's channel is launched and you go directly to the selected piece of content.
If the user does not have the provider's channel installed it will prompt the user to install the channel.

Content Details Screen

The content details screen includes:

artwork, such as DVD cover art, or TV show banners
content information, such title, description, rating, actors, director, run time, production year, genre
a selectable list of content provider items for the movie or TV show, including an option to add the movie or TV show to the personal My Feed of the user

Each item in the content provider list includes:

the logo of the content provider
the terms to acquire the movie or TV show
an indication if the movie or TV show is available in HD
the number of episodes available for TV shows
a checkmark if the user has installed the content provider VOD channel on their Roku Media Player

Each item, when selected by the user, will "deep link" into the content provider channel. The link could be to a content provider movie details screen, TV season episode list screen, or TV episode details screen, or other screen, depending on the content selected, the content provider, and whether the user has installed the content provider VOD channel.

Content Provider List Order

Content providers are sorted on the content details screen in the following order:

Authenticated SVOD (subscription) or TVE (cable/satellite) channels
Free advertising channels
Unauthenticated SVOD or TVE channels
Purchase or rental price

When more than one content provider meets the same criteria, the order is randomized.

Content Meta-Data Database

User search strings are compared to a master database of content meta-data maintained by Roku. Content providers who participate in the Roku Search program must supply Roku with an XML file listing their currently-available content and content meta-data, which is then incorporated into the Roku master database four times a day. Currently content is pulled at 1:00am, 7:00am, 1:00pm and 7:00pm. The process of reconciling all of the data sources is quite long so we ask you to give us 24 hours for changes to propagate to production.

Integrating Your VOD Channel Content Into Roku Search

This is what you need to do to participate in the Roku Search program:

Create an up-to-date XML feed of your currently available content. – see below
Create search artwork (store and list artwork) – see below
Create a non-certified channel with the name <CHANNEL>SearchBeta where <CHANNEL> is the name of your production channel. Use the same name used when you upload the channel, not the name in the manifest.
Submit an up-to-date XML feed of your available content to Roku using the correct XML schema. Here is the URL: https://developer.roku.com/search/feed_validator. We do not accept feeds which do not pass the validator.
Send email to dl.searchsubmit@roku.com with your non-certified channel code, your feed URL, and your icons. Tell us if you think your deep linking already works.
We will configure your XML feed to your non-certified channel and then you can test deep linking. Because non-certified channels publish automatically you can rapidly iterate to get the feature working.
Once everything is working on the non-certified channel and any changes made have been published to the public channel then we can enable search on your public channel. There is a cert process that we do to make sure everything works.
Make sure you have the infrastructure in place to keep the search feed up-to-date.

Third party support for Integrating Roku Search

Roku search is the most suitable way to make an app and content accessible to viewers. Universal Search and Discovery LLC (USAND LLC) provides outsourced Universal Search Feed Ingest and metadata Delivery Services for Roku’s platform. If a developer needs to seek help to integrate Roku Search in their channel, they can reach out to USAND.

USAND provides free, no obligation app feed assessments for suitability of universal search. The developer can send their existing app feed (in any form). For more information, visit the USAND website at www.universalsearch.io. You can also reach out to the USAND representative Steve Harnsberger at 415-987-2674 or steveh@universalsearch.io.

Search Artwork

You must provide artwork to display in the Roku Search interface. There are two formats, a small icon of your logo for your item in the content providers list on the content details screen and a larger, square logo used for randomized teasers in the search screen. This artwork must look similar to the artwork used to represent your channel in the Roku Channel Store, with your logo and brand colors.

Requirements

PNG format only
Square corners for the teaser logo
Rounded corners for the small logo
143w x 113h pixels for the teaser logo
165w x 60h pixels for the small logo
Use an inner shadow effect for the teaser logo to conform to the default Scene Graph list item focus appearance
If a gradient is applied to the artwork, use a gradient with the light source at the top of the artwork

Search Artwork Templates

The following PSD templates can be used in an illustration tool to create the Roku Search artwork.

Channel Store Teaser Artwork, FHD: searchProviderTile_FHD.psd
Content Provider List Item Artwork, FHD: partnerLogo_template_FHD.psd

Deep Linking

Your channel will need to be updated to support deep linking with the play IDs provided in your feed. Deep linking works by sending command line arguments, via the roAssociativeArray named "args", your channel. Args should be parsed by the channel launch time and the correct content brought up. Just launching the channel will not pass certification.

Play IDs and Deep Linking Example

Function Main(args as Dynamic) as void     
   if (args <> invalid)
        contentID    = args.contentID
		contentType  = args.mediatype
        ...    
   End Function

A tricky item. In your feed, there is a tag called PlayID which gets passed into the channel as ContentID.

A 2nd tricky item. If in search, the user selects "series", then a "season", it will not deep link using the PlayID for the series. It will instead use one of the PlayIDs for one of the episodes in the selected season.

A 3^rd tricky item. When the deep link comes through, it has a contentType of “season” not a “series.”

Here is a snippet from a working XML feed:

Feed snippit

<movie tmsId="MV003837380000">
	<title>The Adventures of Chris Fable</title>
	<videos>
		<video>
			<region>us</region>
			<playId>bbtv://vod/asset_id/2dd3cf6fcf644453a0792cd1a60c3be2</playId>
			<viewOptions>
				<option>
					<quality>SD</quality>
					<license>rental</license>
					<price>1.99</price>
					<currency>USD</currency>
				</option>
			</viewOptions>
		</video>
	</videos>
</movie>

Here is what is the "args" passed in when the piece of content above was selected:

content of args

splashTime: 1973
source: meta-search
contentid: bbtv://vod/asset_id/2dd3cf6fcf644453a0792cd1a60c3be2
instant_on_run_mode: foreground
mediatype: movie
action: display
lastExitOrTerminationReason: EXIT_UNKNOWN

This contentID means something to this channel's developer. As far as Roku is concerned it is just a string however. Some channels use numbers, some user URLs, some use name/value pairs delimited by "|".

Testing your channel for search

There are two ways to test. The first one is to manually trigger the deep link via an ECP command. This boils down to a "curl" to the ECP port where you specify the ContentID and the MediaType as parameters to the URL. See External Control API#3.3ImplementingDeepLinkinginaChannel

The other way to test is with a live system. We use the <channel name>PrivateSearchBeta channel you created for live, end-to-end testing. We configure your feed to point to this channel when we test it. Because non-certified channels are published automatically you can make changes, upload them, update your system, and see your changes in production immediately.

XML Feed Schemas

You must provide an up-to-date XML feed web location for your VOD channel.

Optional security

The only security we support for the XML feed is basic username and password authentication in the HTTP request-header.

Your XML feed should contain content meta-data for each title in your catalog, as described in Search Meta-Data. The XML files from your feed location will be uploaded and incorporated into the Roku Search master database four times a day.

There are two schemas used for XML feeds to the Roku master database:

Schemas Using the Gracenote TMS Database
Schemas Without the TMS Database

The two differ in the amount of meta-data you must supply, and whether you need to supply a TMS ID that corresponds to the deep-link playID(s) of your content item(s).

Schemas Using the TMS Database

One schema incorporates meta-data from the Gracenote TMS database, a database of movies and TV shows. To use this database, you must supply the minimal data required to allow Roku users to purchase and play your content items, such as playID, pricing, and so forth. You must also identify the TMS ID for the corresponding content item(s) you make available to Roku users.

The TMS ID is a 14-character scheme used to uniquely identify movie and TV show content (for example, MV123456780000). These IDs are used to match titles in your currently-offered content catalog back to specific title entries in the master Roku Search database.

The first two characters in the ID represent the unique ID domain applied to the program record:

ID	Domain
MV	Movie (theatrical, made-for-television, direct-to-video)
SH	TV Show
EP	TV Episode

The next 12 characters will be the unique numeric value within that database. This implies that the numeric sequence could be identical across the four ID domains.

By using the TMS IDs, Roku only needs limited information from you to display full content meta-data. Please contact Gracenote directly about acquiring IDs for your content.

If the meta-data you provide for a title appears to match a title we already have in our database, we will display only the TMS meta-data.

Schemas Without the TMS Database

The second schema requires you to provide more meta-data. You will also provide your own unique, immutable playID for each item instead of the TMS-ID.

XML Validation

Roku cannot incorporate your XML files into the master database unless it conforms to the correct XML schema. Refer to Search Meta-Data for details on the required and optional meta-data for Roku Search. The following are two sample XML files, one that uses the TMS database, the other without the TMS database:

Make sure to validate your XML feed against one of the two following XML schema (.xsd) files before submitting it to Roku:

TMS: partner-feed-tms-validator.xsd
Non-TMS: partner-feed-validator.xsd

Search Meta-Data

The following tables describe the required and optional meta-data fields used in the XML feed files for Roku Search.

Although many fields are optional, the more meta-data you include, the greater the probability your content will be returned in the user search results.

Movie Meta-Data (TMS)

Field	Required	Description
movies/movie/@tmsId	Required	Gracenote TMS ID for a specific movie.
... movie/title	Optional	Optional, but very helpful
… movie/videos/video	Required	The videos element lists all the video content items corresponding to the specific movie identified by the movie/@tmsId attribute. Each child video element must have a unique play ID, and provide meta-data indicating availability, pricing and other specifics about that specific video content item available on your channel.
… video/playId	Required	A value you provide for each title in your XML feed that we will pass back to your channel when a user selects your service as a provider for a specific title (see Play IDs and Deep Linking).
… video/region	Optional	Can be one of the following 2-character ISO codes (can be either uppercase or lowercase): us (default) US (default) gb GB ca CA ie IE
… video/viewOptions/option	Required	Used to provide video viewing options.
… option/quality	Required	The resolution of the video content item. Must be one of the following (can either be uppercase or lowercase): sd SD hd HD hd+ HD+ UHD
… option/license	Required	The type of license terms for the video content item. Must be one of the following (can either be initial capitalization or all lowercase): free Free rental Rental purchase Purchase subscription Subscription
… option/price	Required if option/license is set to purchase or rental, defaults to 0.00 if option/license is set to subscription or free	Price, that must include two decimal point places, such as "1.90", "1.99", or "2.00". If the price is "0.00", set option/license to "subscription" or "free" rather than setting option/price to "0.00", and option/price will be set to "0.00" by default.
… option/currency	Optional	The type of currency that denominates the price. Must be one of the following (can either be uppercase or lowercase): usd (default) USD (default) gbp GBP cad CAD

Movie Meta-Data (non-TMS)

Field	Required	Description
movies/movie/@id	Required	Your immutable reference ID for that movie. Note: Once assigned to a content item, you cannot change the reference ID or use it for another content item in the Roku Search metadata.
... movie/titles/title	Required	Movie title. We use this value for matching. Please don’t include extra information like year, version label, and so forth.
… title/@language	Optional	Default: en (Roku Search is currently only available in English.)
… movie/images/image	Optional	Although this is optional, we recommend that you include it for items where you unsure about whether we can or cannot match your content.
… image/url	Required	`http://your_domain/your_image_path` Image dimensions must be 240 x 360 (W x H) pixels.
… image/@language	Optional	Default: en (Roku Search is currently only available in English.)
… image/@category	Required	Must one of the following: Poster Art Box Art
… movie/descriptions/description	Required	You must provide a movie description that does not exceed 60 characters. You should (though are not required) to also provide longer descriptions not to exceed 500 characters (the maximum length is set by the description/@length attribute).
… description/@language	Optional	Default: en (Roku Search is currently only available in English.)
… description/@length	Optional	Maximum character value for the short/long description. Must be one of the following: 60 (default) 100 250 500
… movie/runTime	Required	Runtime in seconds
… movie/releaseYear	Required	Year initially released or first aired
… movie/crew/person, … movie/cast/person	Optional	Used to provide a list of cast and crew members. Note: Roku recommends you provide this if there is a chance Roku data cannot match your data.
… cast/person/role	Required if a cast person is provided	Must be one of the following: Actor Anchor Host Narrator Voice
… crew/person/role	Required if a crew person is provided	Must be one of the following: Director Host
… person/firstName	Required if person provided	First Name or abbreviation
… person/middleName	Optional	Middle Name or abbreviation
… person/lastName	Optional	Last Name
… person/birthDate	Optional	`YYYY-mm-dd`
… person/deathDate	Optional	`YYYY-mm-dd`
… person/image	Optional	`http://your_domain/your_image_path` Image dimensions must be 270 x 360 (W x H) pixels.
… movie/ratings/rating	Optional	Localized parental rating of movie
… rating/rating	Required if rating provided	Must be a value found in Acceptable Parental Ratings
… rating/source	Required if rating provided	Must be either: British Board of Film Classification Canadian Home Video Rating System Canadian Parental Rating Motion Picture Association of America UK Content Provider USA Parental Rating
… movie/keywords/keyword	Optional	Keywords used to describe movie
… keyword/type	Required only if keyword	Must be: Character General Mood Setting Subject Theme Time Period
… keyword/word	Optional	Users cannot search by keyword, however our meta-data structure supports them. For example, here are keywords for the movie *Argo* by keyword type: Mood Brutal Tense Suspenseful Theme Rescue Escape Subject Iran hostage crisis On the run Political intrigue Schemes Time Period 1970s Setting Tehran, Iran CIA office Canada United States Character CIA agent Specialist Hostage Revolutionary Ambassador Wife
… keyword/@language	Optional	Default: en (Roku Search is currently only available in English.)
… movie/genres/genre	Optional	Must be found in Acceptable Genres.
… movie/videos/video	Required	The videos element lists all the video content items corresponding to the specific movie identified by the movie/@id attribute. Each child video element must have a unique play ID, and provide meta-data indicating availability, pricing and other specifics about that specific video content item available on your channel.
… video/playId	Required	A value you provide for each title in your XML feed that we will pass back to your channel when a user selects your service as a provider for a specific title (see Play IDs and Deep Linking).
… video/region	Optional	Can be one of the following 2-character ISO codes (can be either uppercase or lowercase): us (default) US (default) gb GB ca CA ie IE
… video/viewOptions/option	Required	Used to provide video viewing options.
… option/quality	Required	The resolution of the video content item. Must be one of the following (can either be uppercase or lowercase): sd SD hd HD hd+ HD+ UHD
… option/license	Required	The type of licensing terms for the video content item. Must be one of the following (can either be initial capitalization or all lowercase): free Free rental Rental purchase Purchase subscription Subscription
… option/price	Required if option/license is set to purchase or rental, defaults to 0.00 if option/license is set to subscription or free	Price, that must include two decimal point places, such as "1.90", "1.99", or "2.00". If the price is "0.00", set option/license to "subscription" or "free" rather than setting option/price to "0.00", and option/price will be set to "0.00" by default.
… option/currency	Optional	The type of currency denominated by price. Must be one of the following (can be either uppercase or lowercase): usd (default) USD (default) gbp GBP cad CAD

TV Meta-Data (TMS)

Field	Required	Description
seriesItems/series/@tmsId	Required	Gracenote TMS ID for a specific TV series.
... series/title	Optional	Optional, but very helpful
… series/episodes/episode	Required	At least one episode must be included for a series
episode/@tmsId	Required	Gracenote TMS ID for a specific TV episode.
... episode/title	Optional	Optional, but very helpful
… episode/videos/video	Required	The videos element lists all the video content items corresponding to the specific TV episode identified by the episode/@tmsId attribute. Each child video element must have a unique play ID, and provide meta-data indicating availability, pricing, and other specifics about that specific video content item available on your channel.
… video/playId	Required	A value you provide for each title in your XML feed that we will pass back to your channel when a user selects your service as a provider for a specific title (see Play IDs and Deep Linking).
… video/region	Optional	Can be one of the following 2-character ISO codes (can be either uppercase or lowercase): us (default) US (default) gb GB ca CA ie IE
… video/viewOptions/option	Required	Used to provide video viewing options.
… option/quality	Required	The resolution of the video content item. Must be one of the following (can be either uppercase or lowercase): sd SD hd HD hd+ HD+ UHD
… option/license	Required	The type of licensing terms for the video content item. Must be one of the following (can be either initial capitalization or all lowercase): free Free rental Rental purchase Purchase subscription Subscription
… option/price	Required if option/license is set to purchase or rental, defaults to 0.00 if option/license is set to subscription or free	Price, that must include two decimal point places, such as "1.90", "1.99", or "2.00". If the price is "0.00", set option/license to "subscription" or "free" rather than setting option/price to "0.00", and option/price will be set to "0.00" by default.
… option/currency	Optional	The type of currency denominated by price. Must be one of the following (can be either uppercase or lowercase): usd (default) USD (default) gbp GBP cad CAD

TV Meta-Data (non-TMS)

Field	Required	Description
seriesItems/series/@id	Required	Your immutable reference ID for that TV series. Once assigned to a content item, you cannot change the reference ID or use it for another content item in the Roku Search meta-data.
… series/titles/title	Required	Used for providing titles. We use this field for matching.
… title/@language	Options	Default: en (Roku Search is currently only available in English.)
… series/images/image	Optional	Used to provide images for this tv series. Optional but highly recommended if you’re not confident that we can match your data.
… image/url	Required	http://your_domain/your_image_path Image dimensions must be 360 x 270 (W x H) pixels.
… image/@language	Optional	Default: en (Roku Search is currently only available in English.)
… series/descriptions/description	Required	You must provide a movie description that does not exceed 60 characters. You should (though are not required) to also provide longer descriptions not to exceed 500 characters (the maximum length is set by the description/@length attribute).
… description/@language	Optional	Default: en (Roku Search is currently only available in English.)
… description/@length	Optional	The maximum character value for the short/long description. Must be one of the following: 60 (default) 100 250 500
… series/originalAirDate	Optional	`YYYY-mm-dd` Optional but very important. We recommend that you provide this.
… series/crew/person, … series/cast/person	Optional	Used to identify cast and crew members
… cast/person/role	Required if a cast person is provided	Must be one of the following:: Actor Anchor Host Narrator Voice
… crew/person/role	Required if a crew person is provided	Must be one of the following: Director Host
… person/firstName	Required if person provided	First Name or abbreviation. Used for matching.
… person/middleName	Optional	Middle Name or abbreviation
… person/lastName	Optional	Last Name. Used for matching.
… person/birthDate	Optional	`YYYY-mm-dd` Used for matching.
… person/deathDate	Optional	`YYYY-mm-dd`
… person/image	Optional	http://your_domain/your_image_path Image dimensions must be 270 x 360 (W x H) pixels.
… series/seasons/season	Required	Used to include data for seasons
… season/seasonNumber	Required	Sequential season number
… season/images/image/url	Required	http://your_domain/your_image_path Image dimensions must be 360 x 270 (W x H) pixels.
… season/images/image/@language	Optional	Default: en (Roku Search is currently only available in English.)
… season/episodes/episode	Required	At least one episode must be included for a series
… episode/@id	Required	Your immutable reference ID for episode. Once assigned to a content item, you cannot change the reference ID or use it for another content item in the Roku Search meta-data.
… episode/episodeNumber	Required	Sequential episode number
… episode/airDate	Optional	`YYYY-mm-dd` Optional but recommended. This is helpful for matching and such.
… episode/titles/title	Required	Series title
… title/@language	Optional	Default: en (Roku Search is currently only available in English.)
… episode/images/image	Optional	Image used for episode
… image/url	Required	`http://your_domain/your_image_path` Image dimensions must be 360 x 270 (W x H) pixels.
… image/@language	Optional	Default: en (Roku Search is currently only available in English.)
… episode/descriptions/description	Required	You must provide a movie description that does not exceed 60 characters. You should (though are not required) to also provide longer descriptions not to exceed 500 characters (the maximum length is set by the description/@length attribute).
… description/@language	Optional	Default: en (Roku Search is currently only available in English.)
… description/@length	Optional	Must be the maximum character value for the short/long description: 60 (default) 100 250 500
… episode/crew/person, … episode/cast/person	Optional	A cast or crew member. Roku recommends that you provide complete data for this if you’re not sure that we can match the episode.
… cast/person/role	Required if a cast person is provided	Must be one of the following: Actor Anchor Host Narrator Voice
… crew/person/role	Required if a crew person is provided	Must be one of the following: Director Host
… person/firstName	Required if person provided	First Name or abbreviation. Used for matching.
… person/middleName	Optional	Middle Name or abbreviation
… person/lastName	Optional	Last Name. Used for matching.
… person/birthDate	Optional	`YYYY-mm-dd` Used for matching.
… person/deathDate	Optional	`YYYY-mm-dd`
… person/image	Optional	http://your_domain/your_image_path Image dimensions must be 270 x 360 (W x H) pixels.
… episode/ratings/rating	Optional	Localized parental rating of movie
… rating/rating	Required if rating provided	Must be a value from Acceptable Parental Ratings
… rating/source	Required if rating provided	Must be either: British Board of Film Classification Canadian Home Video Rating System Canadian Parental Rating Motion Picture Association of America UK Content Provider USA Parental Rating
… episode/keywords/keyword	Optional	Keywords used to describe movie
… keyword/type	Required only if keyword	Must be: Character General Mood Setting Subject Theme Time Period
… keyword/word	Optional	Users cannot search by Keyword, however our meta-data structure supports them. For example, here are keywords for the movie *Argo* by keyword type: Mood Brutal Tense Suspenseful Theme Rescue Escape Subject Iran hostage crisis On the run Political intrigue Schemes Time Period 1970s Setting Tehran, Iran CIA office Canada United States Character CIA agent Specialist Hostage Revolutionary Ambassador Wife
… keyword/@language	Optional	Default: en (Roku Search is currently only available in English.)
… episode/videos/video	Required	The videos element lists all the video content items corresponding to the specific TV episode identified by the episode/@id attribute. Each child video element must have a unique play ID, and provide meta-data indicating availability, pricing, and other specifics about that specific video content item available on your channel.
… episode/genres/genre	Optional	Must be found in Acceptable Genres.
… video/playId	Required	A value you provide for each title in your XML feed that we will pass back to your channel when a user selects your service as a provider for a specific title (see Play IDs and Deep Linking).
… video/region	Optional	Must be one of the following 2-character ISO codes (can be either uppercase or lowercase): us (default) US (default) gb GB ca CA ie IE
… video/viewOptions/option	Required	You must provide at least one option.
… option/quality	Required	The resolution of the video content item. Must be one of the following (can be either uppercase or lowercase): sd SD hd HD hd+ HD+ UHD
… option/license	Required	The type of licensing terms for the video content item. Must be one of the following (can be either initial capitalization or all lowercase): free Free rental Rental purchase Purchase subscription Subscription
… option/price	Required if option/license is set to purchase or rental, defaults to 0.00 if option/license is set to subscription or free	Price, that must include two decimal point places, such as "1.90", "1.99", or "2.00". If the price is "0.00", set option/license to "subscription" or "free" rather than setting option/price to "0.00", and option/price will be set to "0.00" by default.
… option/currency	Optional	The currency that denominates price. Must be one of the following (can either be uppercase or lowercase): usd (default) USD (default) gbp GBP cad CAD

Acceptable Genres

All acceptable genres may have either initial capitalization of the first word or all lower-case.

action
action sports
adventure
aerobics
agriculture
animals
animated
anime
anthology
archery
arm wrestling
art
arts/crafts
auction
auto
auto racing
aviation
awards
badminton
ballet
baseball
basketball
beach soccer
beach volleyball
biathlon
bicycle
bicycle racing
billiards
biography
blackjack
boat
boat racing
bobsled
bodybuilding
bowling
boxing
bullfighting
bus./financial
canoe
card games
cheerleading
children
children-music
children-special
children-talk
collectibles
comedy
comedy drama
community
computers
consumer
cooking
cricket
crime
crime drama
curling

dance
dark comedy
darts
debate
diving
docudrama
documentary
dog racing
dog show
dog sled
drag racing
drama
educational
entertainment
environment
equestrian
erotic
event
exercise
fantasy
fashion
fencing
field hockey
figure skating
fishing
football
fundraiser
gaelic football
game show
gaming
gay/lesbian
golf
gymnastics
handball
health
historical drama
history
hockey
holiday
holiday music
holiday music special
holiday special
holiday-children
holiday-children special
home improvement
horror
horse
house/garden
how-to
hunting
hurling
hydroplane racing
indoor soccer
interview
intl soccer

kayaking
lacrosse
law
luge
martial arts
medical
military
miniseries
mixed martial arts
motorcycle
motorcycle racing
motorsports
mountain biking
music
music special
music talk
musical
musical comedy
mystery
nature
news
newsmagazine
olympics
opera
outdoors
parade
paranormal
parenting
performing arts
playoff sports
poker
politics
polo
pool
pro wrestling
public affairs
racquet
reality
religious
ringuette
rodeo
roller derby
romance
romantic comedy
rowing
rugby
running

sailing
science
science fiction
self improvement
shooting
shopping
sitcom
skateboarding
skating
skeleton
skiing
snooker
snowboarding
snowmobile
soap
soap special
soap talk
soccer
softball
special
speed skating
sports talk
squash
standup
sumo wrestling
surfing
suspense
swimming
table tennis
talk
technology
tennis
theater
thriller
track/field
travel
triathlon
variety
volleyball
war
water polo
water skiing
watersports
weather
weightlifting
western
wrestling
yacht racing

Acceptable Parental Ratings

12
12A
14+
14A
15
18
18+
18A

A
AA
C
C8
E
G
NC-17
PG

PG-13
R
R18
TV14
TVG
TVMA
TVPG
TVY

TVY14
TVY7
U
Uc
UNRATED