Sec.16-333-33a. Community access support definitions

(a) "Access user" for the purposes of section 16-331a-11 and 16-331a-12 shall mean any person, other than a company's employee or paid consultant, who is involved in the production, showing, promotion, or support of community access programming.

(b) "Community access" for the purposes of sections 16-331a-11 and 16-331a-12, shall mean the same as public access as defined in section 16-333-31, including the conception, production, editing, and showing of programming by an access user. No company shall exert editorial control over the content of such programming.

(c) "Equipped studio" for the purposes of section 16-331a-11, shall mean the following: (1) (A) a production room with ceiling height adequate to mount lighting equipment necessary for good quality production of video programming; (B) two cameras having a minimum 350 lines of horizontal resolution and equipped with studio view finder, external synchronization capability and remote lens control; (C) lighting equipment, microphones, intercom system, tripods, and microphone mixers sufficient for good quality production of video programming; (2) (A) a control room, separate from the production room with adequate sound insulation and space and cablecasting equipment sufficient to enable the good quality production and effective showing of video programming, including, but not limited to, the following equipment: three color capable video tape recorders, with video output jack, minimum 60 minute recording time, minimum 240 lines of resolution, and minimum of two audio tracks, at least two of which must be capable of forming an editing system with a controller, and capable of assemble and insert edit; (B) two monitors with a minimum of nine inch screens; switching equipment and a sixteen-page character generator; (C) an editing room, separate from the production and control rooms, unless the room is of sufficient size to provide for the editing and control functions to occur simultaneously in the same room without adverse impact to either function, with space and equipment sufficient to enable the effective editing of programming.

(Effective July 2, 1987; Amended September 26, 1996)