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From: kerchen@fuji.ucdavis.edu (Paul Kerchen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: Access to Cable Company's Equipment
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Date: 29 Jan 91 21:14:34 GMT
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In article <43097@nigel.ee.udel.edu> BYRNE@muppet.dnet.ge.com writes:
>
>        I may be way out in left field here, but didn't I read somewhere that
>the cable companies must allow public access to there equipment (according to
>the FCC?)?  Thanks.
>

Yes, but anything you produce with their equipment must

	1) be for non-profit uses, and
	2) aired on the local cable station.

Actually, it doesn`t *have* to be aired, but the point is that public access
television is not meant for commercial or private use.  So, yes, you are
guaranteed access to the stuff but it has to be used for producing a public
access program.  Here in Davis, you can use their equipment for private or
commercial uses but you must pay.

			    Paul Kerchen

kerchen@fuji.eecs.ucdavis.edu	- or -	kerchen@holly.eecs.ucdavis.edu