There's been a change in the local access TV schedule in Seattle. TCI, the nation's largest cable provider and the operator of the Seattle franchise, pulled two community access programs off the air, making it impossible to watch The Mike Hunt Get Your Friend Laid Show and Fulfilling Your Fantasies, programs with nudity and sex. \n It's the second time in four months each show has been pulled off the access channel. \n Meanwhile, the battle has shifted from the cable studio to the courtroom. In May, TCI sued the shows' producers and the city in federal court, seeking a ruling on whether the programs were obscene and whether the cable operator had the right to cancel them. This month, TCI lawyers asked for summary judgment, hoping for a ruling by mid-September without the case ever going to trial. \n Backed by the ACLU, the producers filed a motion of their own, seeking a summary judgment that would put the shows back on the schedule and stop TCI from yanking or censoring any show without a hearing in court. \n The controversy started in May, when a TCI subscriber sent the cable operator a tape of the shows and complained about them being cablecast. Uncertain of its authority, TCI asked the city to rule on whether the programs were obscene but the city refused to get into the censorship business. In the franchise agreement, TCI contracts to run the public access channel for the city. \n The Mike Hunt Get Your Friend Laid Show was permitted to return after producer Michael Aivaz, 36, signed an agreement not show any type of sex. A TCI spokesman said he honored the agreement for a few weeks and then slowly returned to his old ways. \n T.J. Williams, producer of Fulfilling Your Fantasies, wasn't asked to sign anything because his shows were less explicit, the spokesman said. But after that show returned, it began offering hardcore porn, according to TCI. \n Aivaz calls his show porn although his lawyers would prefer he didn't. His point is that it is his right to show porn and sex on public access.
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