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5 <br />If you a Time Warner Cable customer with basic or standard service (receive <br />channels 1-77 only) and you would like Time Warner Cable to come and install a <br />special digital box for you, please contact the County Manager's Office at 245- <br />2301 or e-mail, cbarber(a-).co.orange.nc.us and provide the following information: <br />- Name <br />- Time Warner Cable Account Number <br />- Street Address <br />- Home Phone Number <br />- Best Time of Day for Contact by Time Warner Cable to Set Appointment <br />If you are a Time Warner customer with basic or standard service (receive <br />channels 1-77 only) and you want to connect your own special digital box, you <br />can pick up the equipment at the Time Warner Cable Chapel Hill Payment <br />Center at 1201 B Raleigh Road in Chapel Hill. Simply tell the Time Warner Cable <br />associate you are picking up a special digital box for Orange County Commission <br />meetings. Easy to understand connection directions are included in the box. <br />What Lies Ahead <br />Live cable casting of Orange County Commission meetings will be available at <br />this time only when the Commission meets at the Southern Human Services <br />Center - typically the second regular meeting date in the month. Plans are to be <br />able to cable cast live from a renovated John M. Link, Jr. Government Services <br />Center as part of the Hillsborough County Campus expansion project. <br />The County intends to repeat cable casts of the Commission meetings on <br />Channel 265 and to transition altogether from tape delayed on The People's <br />Channel, Channel 8, following the first live cast the end of March. <br />Announcements to alert viewers to this change are currently running on Channel <br />8. <br />Beyond live casting and replaying Commission meetings, what other programs <br />will be available on Channel 265? Orange County is starting out, as do most <br />government channels, with one principal program - live meetings of its elected <br />leadership. Renovation for public meeting space and live casting in the Link <br />Center hold the potential for the Commission to grant the Town of Hillsborough <br />and Orange County Schools County facility use and the opportunity for them to <br />contract for live casting and delayed broadcast as well. <br />Under the new statewide cable franchise legislation, counties and municipalities <br />are scheduled to receive cable services sales tax revenues of up to $25,000 for <br />each public, education, or governmental channel contained within existing <br />agreements. It appears that Orange County would be eligible for at least that <br />amount for its Channel 265. Additionally staff understands that the E-North <br />Carolina Authority will also have available limited grant funding to help support <br />technical operations for public, education, and government access programming.