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When providing time to members, SATV will broadcast locally produced programming free of editorial control, but does set forth certain production requirements as outlined below. Program producers and users of SATV’s television are fully liable for the content of all program material that they submit.
  1. SATV has right of first use to all programs created using SATV equipment and facilities. Specifically, programs must be submitted for broadcasting on SATV before being submitted to any other broadcast or distribution facility. Taped, edited programs must be submitted on SATV-designated media; live–to–tape programs must deliver first generation media. All program submissions must be accompanied by a Playback Request form, and all applicable information must be provided.
  2. Producers will, as part of the program submission process, indicate how viewers can reach them. This information will be in the credits section of the program submitted as well as on the Playback Request form, and the information must be identical. The contact information will be released to the public in the event SATV is contacted about the program.
  • Compliance Failure to comply with these requirements can result in a range of outcomes: your program may not be broadcast, or your membership and ability to use SATV’s facilities may be limited or revoked. If staff notices an abnormal number of production problems with a program submission, a user may be asked to refrain. SATV reserves the right to adapt these operating rules
  • First Amendment / Equal Time Policies There will be no prior restraint or censorship of programming submitted to SATV for presentation under its public access policies, unless such programming contains material used illegally or material not protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Programming must include a disclaimer in which the Programmer accepts responsibility for her/his speech and holds harmless SATV and the college on which SATV programming appears.
    • The Equal Opportunity or “Equal Time” rule and the Personal Attack rule do not apply to our facility. Users are under no legal obligation to show any viewpoint other than their own.
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