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City of Enumclaw, WA
Submitted courtesy of Jon Funfar, City Communication Coordinator, City of Enumclaw

City of Aurora, KACT-TV: Election Coverage on Government Channels, and What Cities are Doing
A small report listing several cities and what type of election coverage they air

KACT-TV Policy for Politically Oriented Programming during Election Campaigns
"KACT-TV's responsibility during the election years is to provide its viewers with information and forums pertaining to candidates and issues relevant to the Aurora electorate. Because these programs may contain controversial viewpoints, KACT-TV has developed the following Policy so that established guidelines will exist to ensure fairness in the presentation of issues on Channel 8."

City of Aurora, KACT-TV: Viewership Survey Summary Report
"KACT-TV has conducted a viewership survey of some variety since 1985. The survey has always served four major functions. First to discover the demographics of our viewers in terms of age, sex, and family income. Second, to find out which programs our viewers are most frequently watching. Third, to find out what kings of new programs or services our viewers would like to see KACT-TV offer. Finally, the survey serves as a publicity vehicle to inform potential viewers of our existence."

Examples of Schedules from Several Cities
Different examples of programming schedules.

FY 1999 Video Production Services Proposal Package
"In its franchise agreement with Media General Cable and Jones Intercable of Reston, the County receives two cable networks: a  subscriber network (Channel 16), for citizen information; and an institutional network (Channel 41), for closed-circuit County voice, data, and video transmissions. The Procedures for proposal submission and proposal forms for both channels are explained in this document."

Federal Communications Commission: Cable Television Fact Sheet
FCC fact Sheet on Cable Program content regulations, please visit www.fcc.gov/csb/facts/program.html

Guidelines for Irving Community Television Network: City Productions
This is a document that the City of Irving created to use as a guideline to coordinate city-related productions.

Contra Costa Television Grants
This document details the procedures that the Contra Costa Television (CCTV) channel use to obtain grants.

Contra Costa Television: Contract to Hire Producer/Director
A document that details the hiring of a Producer/director at the channel.

City of Los Angeles: Municipal Access Policies
This Municipal Access Policy document details the mission statement, goals, and procedure for the channel.

Sacramento Metropolitan Cable Television Commission Programming Policies for the Government Access Channel
Programming policies for the City of Sacramento.

Forms from Different Cities
Several different types of forms from different cities.

Job Descriptions from Different Cities
Job descriptions of several different types of jobs common to a government access channel.

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