(a) The government access channel shall be made available to agencies of federal, state, county, township and city government, and other units of local government located within the service area of Oxford. The objectives of the government channel are:
(1) To provide public service information to the citizens of Oxford;
(2) To increase awareness of the activities and deliberations of governmental, legislative and advisory bodies;
(3) To increase citizen knowledge of the various functions and responsibilities of governmental agencies;
(4) To help and encourage participation in program services to the maximum extent possible;
(5) To enhance training in internal communications opportunities for government employees.
(b) The objectives of the educational access channel are the following:
(1) To provide a community awareness and develop an understanding of the diverse and considerable educational activities on-going within the service area.
(2) To encourage and assist the educational community within the service area to define and expand their continuing role of leadership. (Include public service spots within the program.)
(3) To exist as a confluence of the many individual institutions and provide further avenues of cooperation toward a common educational good.
(4) To provide a platform on which to expand the various existing curriculums into the greater community as continuing educational opportunities.
(5) To enhance and expand the opportunity for developing television production skills in a technically-oriented world.
(Ord. 2670. Passed 1-4-00.)