Conn. Agencies Regs. § 16-333-31 - Definitions
As used in Secs. 16-331a-2 -16-331a-5, inclusive:
(1) "Franchise
Holder" means the holder of a certificate of public convenience and necessity
to construct and operate a CATV system, under the provisions of section
16-31 of
the General Statutes.
(2) Public
access refers to the use of a cable television channel for non-commercial
programming by any person.
(3)
"Person" means any individual, corporation, joint venture, public benefit
corporation, political subdivision, governmental agency or authority,
municipality, partnership, association, trust or estate and any other entity,
public or private, however organized.
(4) "Educational access" means the use of a
community access channel for noncommercial educational programming.
(5) "Governmental access" means the use of a
community access channel for non-commercial governmental programming.
(6) "Community access" includes public
access, educational access and governmental access, as defined in subsections
(b), (d) and (e) of this section.
(7) "Access user," "access channel user" and
"user of access channel" means any person other than a franchise holder's
employee or paid consultant, who is involved in the development, production,
showing, promotion or support of community access programming.
(8) "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 cable casting 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.
Notes
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