As one of the mass media, television became one of the most important parts of social interaction and assimilation into society. Its contents affect people's lives, their behaviour and is an important tool in the formation of moral values, patterns of behaviour, lifestyles and characters. It imposes itself as a social institution in the socialization process. Since television affects human life, action, interpretation and socialization, it is important to notice a part of its content whose purpose is morally dubious - violent content. Television programs are saturated with violence, which is especially noticeable in news programs where television broadcasts real violent events such as natural disasters, accidents, wars and the like. George Gerbner, who conducted the first research on media violence, argues that television violence can lead to desensitization, approval of aggression, aggressive behaviour, and fear that the world is a dangerous place. Television can very strongly emphasize violence in the way it presents it. This paper will provide an overview of the characteristics of such programs with special reference to the effects of displaying violent content. This paper will describe present, through a historical overview of research on violence on television, legal solutions in terms of regulation of violent content shown on television and the classification of programs according to viewers’ age, and to give a summary of broadcasting violent content in television today. The most important aspect of the impact of television violence on real-life violence is the long-term distribution of consequences while watching more violent content over an extended period.