Santa Clarita / Antelope Valley : Council Picks Less Restrictive Cable System
In a surprising vote Tuesday night, the City Council unanimously chose a public cable television system that gives access to virtually any type of program.
The council, in the last two months, had been embroiled in a debate over two forms of public access cable television: one that could censor materials that show obscene or illegal acts and a second allowing broader censorship.
Public access television is intended to allow the public to air their own programs for view by cable subscribers.
Residents had expressed concern that the more liberal system--called Public, Education and Governmental--would allow sexually explicit, overtly violent or politically inflammatory material.
“We need to have certain community standards expressed,” said George Sumpter Tuesday night. “We . . . cannot have some special-interest group force its political or sexual views on . . . us.”
Some members of the five-member City Council had supported the more restrictive system but then changed their minds.
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