Article: The Philadelphia Inquirer Consumer Watch Column.

By Jeff Gelles, The Philadelphia Inquirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jun. 7--Want to know how many minutes of commercials are allowed during your children's favorite TV programs?

How about the standards for indecency on television and radio -- believe it or not, there still are standards for radio -- and what hours of the day are no-holds-barred?

Want to learn how to avoid getting burned by your kids' dialing pay-per-call area-code-900 phone numbers?

You can get answers to all those questions, and a raft of others, at a brand-new Web site introduced this week by the Federal Communications Commission: www.fcc.gov/parents. ...

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