CHANNEL 6 NASHUA PUBLIC TELEVISION
BRB TV LLC
Nashua Public Television Channel 96
First Amendment and Democracy
First Amendment:
You have the right to express information, ideas, and opinions free of government restrictions. Freedom of speech is vital to a healthy democracy and is guaranteed in the First Amendment. BRB TV LLC provides the community with the opportunity for political, cultural, artistic, spiritual, and individual expression on television.
Freedom of speech is a fundamental right, but it is not absolute, and cannot be used to justify violence, slander, libel, subversion, or obscenity
Community Driven Television
Nashua Public Television promotes the use of its non-commercial channel 96 and production facilities as an electronic forum for discussing issues and solving problems
Diversity
Nashua Public Television encourages understanding and collaboration across barriers of race, culture, language, class, gender and age.
Nashua Public Television Channel 96 is used by the community members to televise whatever programs they create or sponsor. BRB TV LLC will provide training on various types of equipment that the public can use to create these programs.
Nashua Public Television is a non-commercial Public Television facility whose mission is to encourage open extensive communication while promoting diversity and responsibility.
The facilities are provided exclusively for the production and presentation of non-commercial television programming of interest and / or benefit to the residents of Nashua. The Nashua Public Television Community Bulletin Board is available to individuals and organizations to publicize non-commercial activities and events.
At Nashua Public Television you control the content. You'll have access to change what is viewed on TV. Use the power of TV to meet goals that are important to you and the community
Exceptions
Defamation
Defamation exists as an exception to freedom of speech. It works to strike a balance between the right to freedom of speech and the right to reputation. Thus, while exercising your right to express yourself as you deem fit, such exercise of your right should not destroy the reputation of another person.
Defamation can be in the form of libel or slander. Libel refers to written and published defamatory statements. Slander, on the other hand, refers to only spoken statements that destroy the reputation of another.
Obscenity
The fact that you are free to express yourself without any form of government censorship does not mean that you can make obscene statements or publications.
The protection under the First Amendment does not cover expressions that showcase sexual content and other forms of obscenity in an offensive manner. As a result, this exception prohibits words or images that would be offensive to viewers and young persons.
Perjury
Your right to freedom of speech is an established right. This right does not protect you for making false statements under oath with the intent to deceive, mislead, and sway judgment in your favor.
Perjury, which means lying under oath, is a criminal offense. Where the lies also affect the reputation of another person, an action in defamation is born.
Sedition
Sedition refers to statements or actions that threaten the state or government. It is an offense to make statements that incite people to revolt against an established system of government. While you are free to express yourself, you are not free to stir up a revolution against the established seat of government; neither can you seek to overthrow a form of government.
Threats of terrorism against the established government are also acts that could attract legal sanctions, thereby acting as an exception to your right to freedom of speech or expression.
Incitement
The First Amendment does not protect statements that urge others to resort to the use of force as a means of achieving a particular political or social objective.
Other exceptions to the right to freedom of speech are blackmail, fighting words, threats, fraud, speech violating intellectual property, child pornography.