Leominster Access
Television – LATV Channel 8
Community Bulletin Board Policies and Regulations
General Information
The LATV Community Bulletin Board is available for
the purpose of promoting community events, and
providing public service information. As a
non-profit public access cable channel, the content
of the messages must be non-commercial. LATV
cablecasts the Electronic Community Bulletin Board
on channel 8 between programs. Each message runs 10
to 15 seconds, and the entire system repeats
approximately every 10 minutes. While LATV will
attempt to honor requests for scheduling, final
determination is at the discretion of LATV. Bulletin
Board users must acknowledge responsibility for the
content of the listing.
1. We reserve the right to edit the content of announcements
as well as accept or decline a
request for an announcement.
2. No profit-oriented announcements please.
3. No anonymous submissions, please!
Who Can Use the Electronic Community Bulletin
Board
Any individual or group may submit messages which
promote or publicize an event that is open to the
public, in accordance with the policies that follow:
Non-Profit Groups:
may promote events that are open to the public and
are free.
may promote events that are open to the public and
for which a fee is charged, assuming fees collected
benefit the non-profit. Fund raising events for 501
(c)(3) organizations qualify.
Sorry, but postings of schedules of religious
services are not allowed on the Community Bulletin
Board
For-Profit Groups or Individuals:
may promote events that are open to the public and
are free.
may not submit messages which promote an event that
requires or requests entrance fees, or promotes the
purchase of products or services. Fund raising for
commercial, for-profit groups is prohibited on
public access channels.
Candidates for Political Office:
May promote events that are open to the public and for which a “suggested donation” is secured, i.e. campaign fund raisers.
This type of bulletin will only appear on the Leominster Government Channel Bulletin Board. (There is no control of the frequency or time that each bulletin appears therefore there is no “equal time” policy allowed on this bulletin board.)
Deadlines
Messages should be submitted two weeks prior to the
date the message should be posted on the Community
Bulletin Board. LATV cannot promise or guarantee
that messages will be posted any sooner than one
week from the submission date.
Approval and Priority
Messages submitted are subject to approval based on
the criteria presented above. Advance approvals
cannot be guaranteed over the phone; the entire text
message must be submitted in person or by mail for
submission and/or for final approval.
At those times when messages submitted exceed our
capacity, priority will be given to those messages
that come from local organizations, and to events
that are date specific, as opposed to general
interest messages.
Message Format
Due to limited space, messages are limited to one
bulletin board screen only, per message or event.
The LATV Bulletin Board can accommodate
announcements in foreign languages.
All foreign language announcements must be submitted
in the foreign language and in English for LATV
files.
One screen provides up to 8 lines of text, and up to
approximately 25 characters of text per line
(including spaces and punctuation). Organizations or
individuals may submit messages verbatim, or in the
form of a flier or press release, hand written or
typed. LATV may edit and will format the message.
The message should simply state the basics:
What
When (date and time)
Where
Who (sponsoring
organization)
Phone number for more information
Indicate if a fee is required/requested
A calendar of events (multiple dates for multiple
events) is generally not acceptable on the public
access channel 8 due to space constraints. Also, a
single submission (a press release, a newsletter,
etc.) containing multiple events on multiple dates
cannot be kept on file by LATV for periodic updating
of the organization's message(s). Individual events
on specific dates must be submitted separately.
Please mail or deliver messages to:
Leominster Access Television
Community Bulletin Board
435 Lancaster Street
Suite: 312
Leominster, MA 01453
978-537-9220 (fax)
LATV@Leominster.tv
(email)
Violation of LATV
guidelines and/or making false or misleading
statements in any LATV document or to an LATV
employee may subject the user to immediate
forfeiture of the privilege of using LATV channels.
LATV channels will not be made available to any user
who refuses to have his/her identity maintained in
the records and available for public inspection as
required by law. Your announcement may not include
any material that violates any Federal, State, or
Local law, including, but not limited to, gambling,
obscenity, and pornography.
Users of LATV are fully responsible and liable for
all material submitted by the user for cablcasting
on these channels. All users submitting material for
cablecast shall agree, as a condition of the
cablecast, to hold harmless LATV, its Directors,
Officers, Employees, and its agents from all claims,
suites, actions, loss, liability and damage,
including, but not limited to attorney's fees and
costs, arising out of, or caused by the cablecast of
the user's submission, including, but not limited
to, libel, slander, invasion of privacy or public
rights, unauthorized use of copyright material or
non-compliance with any applicable local, State, or
Federal laws. Submitting the application is an
acknowledgement that the user accepts full
responsibility for the total content of their
material to be cablecast including obtaining all
copyright clearances, talent releases, other
clearances, rights or licenses involved in the
user's programming and that the user agrees to the
forgoing.
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