Programming

General Guidelines

• All programming must be non-commercial.
• Each program can be submitted for up to 3 play cycles.
• A User Access Form must be filled out for each program, each time it is submitted.
• All individual tapes must be timed. This includes programs that are recorded on more than one tape or DVD
• All individual tapes must be labeled.

GCTV will not broadcast tapes that do not meet these criteria.

• Any resident or employee of the 7 town cable franchise area (Guilford, Madison, Branford, North Branfford, North Haven, East Haven and Wallingford) may submit programming to air on one of our 3 channels.
• Producers under 18 years of age must have a parent/guardian sign the User Access Formas the submitter.

• DVD
• MiniDV

GCTV changes the program schedule on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. GCTV tries to schedule programs to play every 3 - 4 hours within each play cycle.

Programs are scheduled using the following guidelines.

• New Guilford produced tapes are scheduled first.
• New non-Guilford produced tapes are next.
• Repeat Guilford produced programs are third.
• Repeat non-Guilford produced tapes are last.

• You must be a resident of Guilford, Branford, North Branford, North Haven, Madison, Wallingford or East Haven to submit and annoucement.
• GCTV will not post announcements for events hosted by private citizen's. Even if it is for charity.
• Announcements must be for events sponsored by non-profit organizations (501c3), public schools or government agencies.
• GCTV will not post prices or graphics.

• GCTV makes every effort to post announcements in a timely manner. It is helpful to us if you send your announcement at least a month before the event date.
• GCTV posts all announcements as a PowerPoint slide.
• GCTV will run announcements for up to 2 weeks. If you have a specific start date in mind for your announcement please specify that in your e-mail to GCTV or in the notes section of the PowerPoint slide you send. Otherwise, GCTV will post the announcement up to 2 weeks prior to the event date.
• If you choose to e-mail your announcement as a text file please keep it brief. No press releases, please! Use plain text in the body of the e-mail or a Word file.