The Parents Television Council, a conservative watchdog that once terrified network executives with indecency complaints, filed for bankruptcy this month.

The council had clout with advertisers, which put pressure on network programmers to minimize shows that would raise the group’s ire and threats of boycotts.

The group’s decline reflects the media industry’s shift to streaming services, which fall outside FCC regulation.

In the late 1990s and early aughts, the conservative Parents Television Council struck fear in the hearts of network TV executives for its high-profile campaigns against shows it deemed too raunchy.

The watchdog group, founded by conservative commentator L. Brent Bozell III, railed against Fox’s “Melrose Place” and “Family Guy”; NBC’s “Just Shoot Me”; and the CW’

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