The Community Television Association of Maine

The mission of CTAM is to advance democratic ideals by ensuring that people in Maine have access to electronic media. In order for democracy to flourish, people must be active participants in their government, educated to think critically, and free to express themselves.

 

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What do we mean by
"Community Television"?

 

1. Public Access: Residents of a Community have access to equipment to produce a program to share with their neighbors over the local public access channel. Community television access channels may also feature programs produced by the schools and government programs (live coverage of council meetings etc.) These are called Educational access and Governmental access respectively. Ideally each of these functions - Public, Educational, and Governmental access - has it's own channel. In this way, the community knows where to look for different types of programming.

2. Local Origination: The cable company creates local programming largely developing the ideas for the programs and producing them with their own staff. The programs are shown on a local cable channel for subscribers of the community. Programming is supported by commercial advertising on these channels.

3. Leased Access: An individual, non-profit organization or business who leases a channel from the cable operator and provides community information. Programming is supported by commercial advertising on these channels.

4. Nonprofit Community Television: Over 65,000 homes in the greater Portland area are served by a unique nonprofit community television channel called TV4, The Community Television Network. Members include non-profit agencies, individuals and businesses who use the channel for education and outreach.

5. Broadcast Community Television: Community television programming that is televised over an FCC approved UHF broadcast channel by a non-profit organization. Channel operation may be commercial or non-commercial and is typically supported by underwriting or direct donations.

bulletThere are over 300,000 homes in Maine which currently receive Community Television channels like those described above.
bulletPublic, Educational, and Governmental cable channels are earmarked for use by the community under the terms of a franchise agreement with the cable company serving that area. Under Maine law, all franchises must include provisions for access to, and facilities to make use of, one or more local Public, Educational and Governmental access channels.

For more information, contact us at [email protected] or write us at: Community Television Association of Maine, PO Box 2124 South Portland, Maine 04106

You may also wish to download the following file (26.3K)  in Adobe Acrobat PDF Version 4.0 format:

Frequently Asked Questions About Local Access TV

 


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