It's called Local Community Interest Programming (LCIP) and it was construed as a replacement for public access TV in 1996.  Indianapolis' cable operators, Comcast and Bright House Networks, are required to provide 25 hours per week of community programming FROM local religious, charitable, literary, cultural and public health organizations: 15 hours between 9 AM and 4 PM, and 10 hours between 6 PM and 11 PM. They have "outsourced" this responsibility to the Indy Music Channel, WDNI-65, now owned by Radio One. Not surprisingly, the lion share of what is now being counted as "local community interest programming" is WDNI music videos shows, while actual programming from the community has dropped dramatically.