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 Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies (Last Updated: June 14,2023)
 Title16 Public Service Companies
 SubTitle16-333-1_16-333-54. Construction and Maintenance Standards and Terms and Conditions of Operation of Community Antenna Television Systems

  Sec.16-333-42. Quality standards for instructional and educational channels  

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  • The department, in evaluating educational and/or instructional programming, shall consider the following, without limitation:

    (1) the technical quality and reliability of the instructional channel required pursuant to subsection (a) of Section 16-333h of the General Statutes of Connecticut and any other public, educational or governmental access channel available for educational programming provided by the franchise holder pursuant to its franchise agreement or other federal or state law or regulation which includes educational programming, and billing services available to all subscribers and services of a closed system;

    (2) the quality and availability of community access training and technical assistance provided to educators, educational institutions and educational agencies in the franchise area, and amount of time of access to production facilities;

    (3) the condition of the outside plant to be used in any instructional network or interactive distance learning project in the operator's franchise area;

    (4) the franchise holder's proposals, including the use of surveys to identify the needs of the local educational communities, to increase the participation and involvement of educators and educational agencies in distance learning projects, instructional networks, or other instructional uses of cable television, including but not limited to open broadcast and nonbroadcast modes;

    (5) the amount of support both direct and indirect, the franchise holder plans to provide and make available, to enhance and promote advanced educational programming;

    (6) other forms of advanced capabilities for advanced educational programming to be provided by the operator including but not limited to: (1) the provision of educational and instructional channels with bi-directional full-motion video, (2) the availability of educational channels via return lines for the entire franchise community, (3) non-traditional uses such as information retrieval systems, (4) digitized video conferencing, (5) school-home data transmission, and (6) the availability of interconnection across franchise boundaries.

(Effective April 27, 1993; Amended October 24, 1995)