STAFF PRODUCTIONS

A. Outreach Productions

CTSCC staff shall provide partial or complete production support for a limited number of programs that serve to spotlight and promote use of the access channels or serve community needs. Selection of subject and content for these programs shall be based on the following criteria:

1) The programs may be produced without charge and in cooperation with public agencies or community organizations located in the Comcast franchise area.

2) Groups that have not received production support in the past shall have priority over groups that have received production support on an outreach production.

3) The content of outreach productions shall be of community interest or benefit to jurisdiction(s) within the Comcast franchise area.

4) Outreach productions may serve special needs through involving particular population(s) (e.g., seniors, youth, hearing-impaired, Spanish speakers).

5) The number and frequency of productions shall be conditioned upon available staff time and resources. Production crews may include volunteers from the CTSCC training program.

6) All staff productions and transacted revenues shall be reported to the Board of Directors.

Outreach productions shall be subject to the Community Access Rules and Procedures.

Community representatives requesting production support will be informed of the access training program and will be encouraged to receive training in order to produce their own community access programming.

B. Government and Educational Access Programs

CTSCC staff shall provide partial or complete production support for a limited number of programs serving the specific needs of local government and educational institutions. Selection of subject and content for these programs shall be based on the following criteria:

1) The programs may be produced in cooperation with government and educational bodies located in the Comcast franchise area.

2) Whenever possible, production support will be provided on a rotating basis throughout the Comcast franchise area. Priority will be given to jurisdictions served by Comcast.

3) Requests by government and educational bodies for production support will be assessed and accepted in the following order of priority:

a. Outreach productions, as described in Section VII.A.

b. Simple documentation of community speakers and events, with limited editing, according to the established CTSCC rate schedule.

c. Scripted, edited programs, according to the established CTSCC rate schedule.

Representatives of government and educational institutions requesting production support will be informed of the access training program and will be encouraged to receive training in order to produce their own community access programming.