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12 <br />I <br />such things as community billboard, local origination programming <br />and educational access programming other than PBS. <br />B. Grantee shall provide a local origination studio, <br />together with the necessary equipment and personnel, to enable <br />members of the public to create and broadcast programming. Grantee <br />may satisfy this requirement to provide local origination studio <br />and necessary equipment and personnel by contracting with a third <br />party. However, the responsibility to provide the local <br />origination studio and necessary equipment and personnel is that <br />of grantee. Air time shall be provided free of charge to everyone <br />except "for- profit" entities and declared political candidates. <br />Fees may be charged for equipment and labor supplied by grantee in <br />assisting persons in developing programming, except that no charge <br />shall be made for live studio cable casts of five minutes or less <br />by public access users or for the broadcasts of such special events <br />as are designated by the board of commissioners of the county. <br />C. Grantee shall make its local origination and public <br />access channel programming available to any other franchised cable <br />operator in the county at the time that cable operator makes its <br />local origination and public access channel programming available <br />to grantee. Grantee shall carry any other franchised cable <br />operators local origination and public access programming when it <br />becomes available to grantee. Grantee shall not be required to <br />carry such programming if it is commercially sponsored. Any charge <br />made by grantee to another franchise cable operator as a price for <br />grantee making its local origination and public access channel <br />11 <br />