a.

Program material must be relevant to the goals and aims of the Seventh-day Adventist church. Church standards are to be reflected in content as outlined in our beliefs and teachings. Our essential Adventist values need to be upheld-including quality of life, unity and growth.

b.

Program material must clearly communicate its intended message

c.

Program material of a controversial nature will be reviewed and judged on its objectivity and on the positive or negative impact it might have on a global church audience.

d.

Submissions will be categorized as news, feature or editorial and will be subjected to the standards established in each of these sub-content arenas.

e.

Creativity in style and approach is encouraged, however, program content will be judged by its sensitivity to a broad spectrum of viewers and may be considered unacceptable if the content is deemed “offensive” to a part of the ATN audience. This is clearly a subjective evaluation, but content and content providers will be given broad latitude to depart from the norm if it can be substantiated that such departure enhances the overall communication.

f.

Content must demonstrate cultural sensitivity and diversity, as it applies.

g.

The audience is always a world church audience and content must have a global appeal. Productions should reflect on the age, race and composition of church members.

h.

Program material must be relevant to the goals and aims of the Seventh-day Adventist church. Church standards are to be reflected in content as outlined in our beliefs and teachings. Our essential Adventist values need to be upheld-including quality of life, unity and growth.

a.

Acceptable tape formats will include Betacam SP, Betacam SX, DVCPro, DVCam and Mini-DV. NTSC is the preferred standard to date, however PAL submissions will be accepted but conversion at ATN will require more lead time for submissions.

b.

Unedited footage will be evaluated on a broadcast standard similar to TV GLOBO, CNN, BBC, Star TV or ABC. Legal broadcast standards must be adhered to.* Footage that is overexposed, underexposed, out of focus, and generally poorly executed will be deemed unacceptable unless such elements are part of a particular news story.

c.

ATN requires use of high-grade one-pass (new) broadcast tape. This will decrease potential for artifacting and dropout. Tapes sent to ATN will not be returned. 2^nd generation copies of footage is generally unacceptable unless cloned from the original.

d.

Primary audio shall reside on channel 1 of unedited tape with nat sound (if available) on channel 2. Audio may be mono or stereo but the tape must be clearly marked with any special audio notes. Overmodulated or undermodulated audio or audio with hum or extensive background noise is unacceptable.

e.

It will be assumed that all rights have been secured once footage is sent to ATN for broadcast including releases, music and content copyrights. Please remember that rights must be secured for global distribution via satellite and cable.

f.

Tapes must be labeled properly and must come with a minimum of a run sheet that gives general cues as to its content. A hand written or typed log is recommended in a standard ATN log format.

g.

Scripts submitted with tapes must conform to the ATN script formats. There are formats for features and news