(a) The hours of cablecasting over the public access channel(s) shall be 6:00 p.m to 1:00 a.m. daily. On Talawanda School District holidays, cablecasting hours are subject to availability of Talawanda School District personnel.
(b) Except as provided in Article IV., allocations of channel time shall be made on a first-come, first-serve, nondiscriminatory basis.
(1) After the same program has aired six (6) times, no further requests for channel time will be honored. A program will be defined as being the same if 50% or more of the program is identical.
(c) Time allocations shall be nonassignable.
(d) The Cable Access Coordinator shall maintain a continuing three-month access channel use schedule for public viewing.
(e) The City will interrupt access programming to cablecast an audio and/or video message on all channels simultaneously in the event of a disaster or public emergency.
(f) If a significant portion of a program cannot be played for any reason, the user shall be notified and offered an alternative date and time for cablecasting his/her program.
(g) When no applications have been submitted for a time slot thirty (30) days prior to a viewing date, the Cable Access Coordinator may make use of the time by repeating any program for which Time Warner Cable has received such permission from the producer, or by cablecasting any other program which does not violate the program content limitations of Article VIII.
(Ord. 2670. Passed 1-4-00.)