Sec. 16-331h. Certified competitive video service community access programming.
Sec. 16-331h. Certified competitive video service community access programming. (a) Not later than one hundred twenty days after the certified competitive video
service provider begins offering service in a designated area pursuant to its certificate
of video franchise authority, such provider shall provide capacity over its video service
to allow community access programming, in its basic service package, in accordance
with the following: (1) The certified competitive video service provider shall provide
capacity equal to the number of community access channels currently offered by the
incumbent community antenna television company in the given area; (2) the certified
competitive video service provider shall provide funds for community access operations,
as provided in subsection (k) of section 16-331a; (3) the certified competitive video
service provider shall provide the transmission of community access programming with
connectivity up to the first two hundred feet from the competitive video service provider's activated wireline video programming distribution facility located in the provider's
designated service area and shall not provide additional requirements for the creation
of any content; and (4) the community access programming shall be submitted to the
certified competitive video service provider in a manner or form that is compatible with
the technology or protocol utilized by said competitive video service provider to deliver
video services over its particular network, and is capable of being accepted and transmitted by the provider, without requirement for additional alteration or change in the content
by the provider.
(b) A certified competitive video service provider and a community antenna television company or nonprofit organization providing community access operations shall
engage in good faith negotiation regarding interconnection of community access operations where such interconnection is technically feasible or necessary. Interconnection
may be accomplished by direct cable, microwave link, satellite or other reasonable
method of connection. At the request of a competitive video service provider, community antenna television company or provider of community access operations, the Department of Public Utility Control may facilitate the negotiation for such interconnection.
(c) Not later than one hundred twenty days after the certified competitive video
service provider begins offering service in a designated area pursuant to its certificate
of video franchise authority, such provider shall provide transmission of the Connecticut
Television Network to all its subscribers, including real-time transmission as technically
feasible, under the same conditions as set forth in subdivisions (3) and (4) of subsection
(a) of this section.
(P.A. 07-253, S. 5.)