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February 12, 2006
Urgent Message from Democracy Now - Help Save Public Access TV
Cable TV and the major telecom companies, while competing for your business, are united in trying to do away with local public access television and the right of cities and towns to negotiate fair deals with these companies. These multi-year deals, called franchises, are the basis of the PEG system - the Public, Educational and Government channels that these cable/telecom companies must provide to cities where they do business.
Companies like Verizon, AT&T (formerly SBC Global), Comcast and Time Warner hope to hike their profits while at the same time doing away with any public interest or pubic access obligations to the cities and towns where the operate.
Choose a link below and follow the simple instructions -
the deadline for comments is end of day Monday February 13!
An important FCC proceeding is underway that could well impact the future for community access media.
Please take a few moments now and make public comments - and ask every supporter you know to please join our cause.
Keep Community Media Local!
For cable access organizations, producers and access supporters there are three excellent sites available to choose from:
Access organizations = http://www.alliancecm.org
Access producers & friends = http://mnn.org/saveaccess/nprmhowto.html
General public & other allies = http://www.freepress.net/fcc/comment.php?d=05-311
And for inspiration, here's word from Jeff Chester at Center for Digital Democracy standing up and speaking out! - http://www.democraticmedia.org/news/washingtonwatch/FCCfiling.html
Posted by Lyn Wall at February 12, 2006 02:19 PM | Permalink
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I'm so glad you posted about this and the party is taking a stance. I've been fighting for this for a while.
You can watch a video on what I've done if you go to archive.org and search for "Robb Zipp".
Posted by: Robb Zipp at February 13, 2006 06:59 AM
Just to clarify. My posting this does not indicate official party support for this issue. What it does indicate is that I personally feel strongly about it and support for this issue is consistent with the State Democratic Party platform.
Posted by: Lyn Wall at February 13, 2006 08:04 AM