Telecommunications Consulting, December 12, 2007
By Bunnie Riedel

There's an inch of ice in Salina Kansas right now. The power is out in some places. My son is worried that the access station he works at will be off. I told him not to worry, if the town's power is out, nobody's going to see that the channel is dark. That's similar to the kind of logic Comcast is applying to PEG channels in Michigan, nobody will miss what they cannot see.

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