public access

noun

the availability of noncommercial television and radio broadcasting facilities to community groups or members of the public for programs of general interest to the community, especially as a condition of cable television franchises.
a type of noncommercial programming of general interest to the community.

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public-access adjective

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Woven throughout this prelude and the rest of the film is footage from Hernandez’s father’s archives; spots on local Texas public access television and new-age health videos extolling the properties of vitamins or infrared-beaming glasses.

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Checkpoints currently block public access at major ingress points to the community.

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The legal right to wild camp on Dartmoor has been upheld by the Supreme Court in a decision that is likely to reignite the debate over public access to land in England.

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“UNESCO World Heritage status is a great honor that needs to be nurtured, not lost by taking public access away,” said Kim Cooper, one of two people behind Esotouric’s Secret Los Angeles, a tour company and preservationist blog.

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“Everybody’s Live” can come off a little unfocused; the weekly themes rarely develop into anything significant, conversations can be lopsided and, professional production values notwithstanding, there is something sort of … public access cable about it all.

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