After attempting to cut funding for years, the Hillsborough County Commission last fall pulled the plug on financing the county's Public Access Channel.

Forced to reduce the budget dues to mandates from the state Legislature last year, the board also cut in half funding of the county's Education Channel, and warned station operators that there may not be any funding at all next year. The third channel, the county's Government channel, also saw its budget cut by more than $200,000