public access

The Cable TV Access Crisis

Stevie Converse — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 13:55:08 -0400

Full article: AlterNet
Eric K. Arnold
With over 100 public and educational channels disappearing since the mid-2000s, we need to have a big rethink about quality public-access TV. A bill currently before the House of Representatives called the Community Access Preservation Act could prevent hundreds of funding-challenged PEG stations nationwide from going belly up. And innovations in open source software are showing some promise.

Feed TV

Lindsy Embree — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:25:28 -0400

Full article: Mountain Xpress
Wally Bowen
If you were to create a map of all public-access TV channels in the United States, shaded green to burnt orange to signify funding and longevity, the South would look like the Sahara desert. Acknowledging this geographical reality is critical to understanding the crossroads Asheville, N.C., public-access channel now faces.

Comcast Settles Suit on Access to Public Channels

Lindsy Embree — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:40:12 -0500

Full article: Lansing State Journal
Melissa Domsic
Comcast reached a lawsuit settlement that will allow Michigan customers with analog television service to continue viewing public access channels without change.

In Springfield, Ill., Public Access Producers Want to Take Over Comcast Station

Stevie Converse — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:13:10 -0500

Full article: State Journal-Register
In Springfield, Ill., local public access television producers are hoping to pick up where Comcast will leave off next month, when the cable provider ceases operation of Access 4.

Watchdog Calls for More Public Funding for Broadcasting

Stevie Converse — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:36:15 -0400

Full article: Radio Business Report
America pays only $1.37 per person on public media at the moment. Craig Aaron of Free Press is not asking for the $80 per person they spend in Great Britain, or even the $22 per they spend in Canada, and certainly not the $565 per person we all spent already to bail out AIG. But he thinks that $5 per person would work wonders.

Reinvigorating Public Media

Stevie Converse — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:28:07 -0400

Full article: American Prospect
Josh Silver
Leadership on public media is needed now -- both in local communities and in Washington. Our biggest obstacle isn't money or technology; it's imagining the alternatives and harnessing the political will to make them a reality. Three major reforms are needed to reinvigorate public media.

Tell the FCC to Protect Community Television

Holiday Shapiro — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:09:42 -0400

Public, educational and governmental (PEG) access channels are under assault by cable giants like Comcast that are trying to bury community stations on their networks. You can help protect community television by filing a comment with the FCC. The filing deadline is midnight Wednesday, April 1.

FP Initial Comments on PEG

Holiday Shapiro — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:49:59 -0400

FP Policy Counsel Chris Riley submitted these comments to the FCC on March 9, 2009.

Media Minutes: February 13, 2009

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:23:37 -0500

Community television advocates have asked the FCC to investigate AT&T’s treatment of public, educational and governmental channels on its U-verse cable TV system. And with tools for mapping and data gathering getting easier to use, people are taking government transparency into their own hands.

Media Minutes 2009-02-13

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:14:22 -0500