Abstract: A method and system for controlling access to media content distributed within a premises is described. One embodiment of the system receives, at the premises, digital content and associated rating information; decodes the digital content to produce decoded content, the decoded content including a particular program from the digital content; embeds with the particular program in the decoded content a rating indicator corresponding to rating information associated with the particular program to produce rated-decoded content including the particular program; modulates the rated-decoded content to produce rated-modulated content including the particular program; and transmits the rated-modulated content to an analog television located on the premises that is capable of selectively blocking the particular program based on the embedded rating indicator.