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■ ROSEVILLE <br />■ MOUNDS VIEW <br />■ SHOREVIEW <br />■ FALCON HEIGHTS <br />■ LITTLE CANADA <br />ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS DISPATCH <br />SaTiomette <br />tmum <br />t® <br />on 6 cable <br />porn <br />?; By Ann Baker <br />Staff Writer <br />In December, sexually explicit movies becam <br />available over cable television in the northern suburb <br />and Burnsville and Eagan. In April, the trend w' <br />spread through Washington County. And local regula <br />tory commissions are finding they have little authori <br />ty to stop it. <br />Last week, two commissions passed resolutions ask <br />ing their local cable companies to halt the movies, bu <br />no fines or franchise restrictions were threatened. <br />"It expresses a personal objection," Roseville City <br />Council member Robert Matson said of the resolutio <br />he introduced asking Cable TV North Central to r <br />move its pay -per -view "soft erotica" movies. The <br />company serves 36 suburbs in Anoka, Ramsey and <br />Washington counties, as well as Burnsville and Eagan <br />in Dakota County. <br />Matson added that he realized his resolution <br />"doesn't have any teeth in it — it won't stop the com- <br />pany." <br />The request was a carefully drawn position by the <br />10-city North Suburban commission, reflecting the <br />thin line cable commissions throughout the St. Paul <br />area are trying to walk as they grapple with the intro- <br />duction of movies that critics call pornography. i . <br />A similar resolution was adopted 4-3 by the South <br />Washington County Cable Commission against the <br />Tuxedo Network, which Coaxial Cable Communica- <br />tions Co. plans to start offering April 15 in most of <br />Washington County. <br />' That resolution also stops short of imposing any <br />penalities. So does a letter the Ramsey -Washington <br />Cable Commission sent last month to Cable TV North <br />Central, which serves White Bear Lake, Maplewood <br />and Oakdale areas. <br />No "adult movies" have been announced by the <br />cable companies that serve St. Paul and most of Dako- <br />ta County, although the movies are shown in Minneap <br />olis and suburban Hennepin County. <br />Cable TV North Central officials maintain that the <br />movies are popular, more so than any of the individu- <br />al movies and sports programs that subscribers pay <br />$4.95 apiece to see. <br />In January, viewers in the 10 north suburban cities <br />watched 5,000 pay -per -view programs that included <br />the "unrated, adult movies" on Channel 34. In March, <br />they watched 2,600. Company officials said some <br />viewers have complained that the movies aren't ex- <br />plicit enough. <br />In Washington County, Coaxial Cable's Tuxedo net- <br />work will cost viewers a $10 installation fee plus <br />$10.95 a month with no limit on the number of movies <br />that r*ln hn Vann A lnnL%nfo . n.. nn rn <br />
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