The Cox Cable line-up might be getting trimmed down and the proposed change is causing static for those who produce public access television.

That word came as broadcasting students at UNO prepared for their first live news show of the semester.

Maureen Kaufman is one of those students and that news program she's working on provides her with a real education.

"I think it's an amazing experience," she said. "It's a lot of learning and working."

Cox Cable wants the city to revise its contract. Part of that revision would involve consolidating six public access channels down to three.

UNO and other local educational institutions use two of the channels for their programs.

The Knowledge Network's Debbi Aliano says this is where their students get their training and she says, "it's critically important to retain the channels."

A spokesperson for Cox says very few customers watch public access. A recent survey shows only one-percent of viewers actually watch public access on regular basis and 90 percent never watch at all. Cox also says that Omaha has more public access channels than other cities its size.

But Aliano sees that more as an asset than an overload. She says, "It's something that makes Omaha unique that we have these locally produced TV programs."

Omaha City Councilman Jim Suttle says those channels don't have a lot of local programming and that's why he's proposing the cut.

Suttle says, "There are thousands and thousands of citizens who want more programming on sports or on news -- on entertainment of all kinds. We still have need for minority points of views to be heard but the medium to use is the Internet."

Councilman Suttle says he wants to preserve the educational channels used by schools like UNO but even with his support there's no guarantee the channel will stay on Cox's cable line-up.

On Monday, the Cable Television Advisory Committee will meet to discuss the issue. It could go before the city council within a month.