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The primary findings regarding PEG Access services, facilities, and equipment are as follows. See Section III of this Executive Summary for recommendations resulting from these findings. • CTV North Suburbs (CTV) is a nonprofit organization established to manage and develop PEG Access activities and programming on the Comcast cable system. CTV and its producers have received over 40 national awards for its programs. CTV has 15 full-time staff (plus four part-time staff, as-needed contractors, and several interns) that handle a variety of management, outreach, training, production, programming, and promotional activities. • About 90% of CTV's annual funding is provided by Comcast, in accordance with its franchise obligations. CTV's other reported revenue sources more than doubled between 2008 and 2010. • An average of 117 hours per month of first-run locally-produced programming has been presented on CTV channels 14 and 15 during the past three years. • During the past three years, CTV reports that a total of 638 multiple-camera remote field productions were created by their volunteers. • Usage levels of the CTV equipment packages during the past three years were very high. • Many items in the CTV equipment inventory are over 10 years old. • The equipment packages for the Council Chambers of the 10 member cities have a wide range of quality and sophistication. Many equipment items in these packages are also more than 10 years old. • CTV and the Cities will need to upgrade much of its field production, editing, studio, master control, and Council Chambers equipment. CTV's equipment should be able to record and transmit programs in both standard and high definition formats. vii