2006 Utah Code - 53B-17-104 — Responsibilities of KUED - TV, KUER - FM, and UEN related to public broadcasting and telecommunication for education.

     53B-17-104.   Responsibilities of KUED - TV, KUER - FM, and UEN related to public broadcasting and telecommunication for education.
     (1) Subject to applicable rules of the Federal Communications Commission and Section 53B-17-102, the State Board of Regents, the State Board of Education, and the University of Utah, KUED - TV, KUER - FM, and UEN shall:
     (a) coordinate statewide services of public radio and television;
     (b) develop, maintain, and operate statewide distribution systems for KUED - TV, KUER - FM, and KUEN, the statewide distance learning service, the educational data network, connections to the Internet, and other telecommunications services appropriate for providing video, audio, and data telecommunication services in support of public and higher education, state government, and public libraries;
     (c) support the delivery of these services to as many communities as may be economically and technically feasible and lawfully permissible under the various operating licenses;
     (d) cooperate with state and local governmental and educational agencies and provide leadership and consulting service for telecommunication for education;
     (e) represent the state with privately owned telecommunications systems to gain access to their networks for the delivery of programs and services sponsored or produced by public and higher education;
     (f) acquire, produce, coordinate, and distribute a variety of programs and services of an educational, cultural, informative, and entertaining nature designed to promote the public interest and welfare of the state;
     (g) coordinate with the state system of higher education to acquire, produce, and distribute broadcast and nonbroadcast college credit telecourses, teleconferences, and other instructional and training services;
     (h) coordinate with the State Board of Education and school districts to acquire, produce, and distribute broadcast and nonbroadcast telecourses, teleconferences, and other instructional and training services to the public schools;
     (i) act as a clearing house for the materials, courses, publications, media, software, and other applicable information related to the items addressed in Subsections (1) (g) and (h);
     (j) coordinate with the State Board of Education to assist in providing the public schools of Utah with the following services:
     (i) broadcast, during school hours, of educational and administrative programs recommended by the State Board of Education;
     (ii) duplication and encoding of program masters for broadcast purposes; and
     (iii) program previewing;
     (k) share responsibility with the State Board of Education for Instructional Television (ITV) awareness and utilization; and
     (l) provide teleconference and training services for state and local governmental agencies.
     (2) UEN shall:
     (a) consult with the UEN steering committee authorized in Section 53B-17-102 and other technology coordinating committees established by the State Board of Education and State Board of Regents in acquiring, producing, and distributing instructional content;
     (b) coordinate the statewide development and implementation of the data network for education, which shall include video and audio, data connections, and connection to the Internet,

utilizing satellite, microwave, fiber-optic, and other transmission media;
     (c) utilize statewide economic development criteria in the design and implementation of the educational telecommunications infrastructure; and
     (d) assure that public service entities such as educators, public service providers, and public broadcasters are provided access to the telecommunications infrastructures that are developed in the state.
     (3) This section neither regulates nor restricts a privately owned company in the distribution or dissemination of education programs.

Amended by Chapter 150, 2006 General Session