The study recommended that producers and others in the television business limit the amount of violence, show more negative consequences and increases the number of viewer advisories. For policy makers, it recommended the use of program-blocking technology and said any effort to restrict violence on TV should take account of the kinds of depictions that pose the most harmful consequences. In 1984, Congress required cable operators to provide access channels open to all comers. Not only civic groups, but pornographers, prostitutes, Nazis and Ku Klux Klanners have taken advantage of the opportunity - often at the expense of cable subscribers. There are two types of access channels, public access and leased access.
Cable operators provide free production facilities and air time for public access.
In many cities, they can charge basic cable subscribers a fee to pay for it. Two dozen naked people in Seattle, Wash., discussing censorship while vulgar words crawled across the bottom of the screen. Mich. Any cable system with more than 36 channels must also offer at least 10 percent of its channels for leased access. These channels can carry advertising, so they are filled with ads for 900-number phone sex, skin magazines and prostitutes. Although cable operators can reject obscene shows, they can't reject merely indecent ones.