Community Programming

​​The Commission operates Metro Cable 14 and provides funding and support to Channel Licensees that operates the other six public, educational, government channels including KVIE (Channel 7), Access Sacramento (Channels 17 & 18), Sacramento Educational Cable Consortium (Channels 15 &16), and Sacramento Life TV (Channel 20) on the local cable systems.

The Channel Licensees are independent organizations, each with their own Board of Directors that develop and implement policy for use of the funds and program content. Below are the links to Channel Licensees that operates the community channels:

Cable/Video Franchises

​​​The Commission administers State-issued cable television franchise and licenses in Sacramento County. The Commission's policy is to encourage competition and thus, provide choice for consumers. There are currently two cable television operators in the Sacramento County region:​