[lbo-talk] 9pm ET Snow protest

gboozell at juno.com gboozell at juno.com
Mon Nov 7 09:28:40 PST 2005


That's basically correct although the bill is actually sponsored by the telephone companies. In a nutshell, these firms want to offer cable TV services without first obtaining cable franchises from the municipalities in which they want to offer the service.

Through these franchise agreements, cities can require cable companies to provide public access channels and funding in exchange for the right to commercially exploit a town's public right of way. Hardly a perfect system, but the basic idea of requiring commercial telecom outfits to provide for noncommercial TV or radio stations in exchange for use of a public resource seems like a model that should be adopted more broadly.

The new legislation would do much to eliminate it. Learn more at www.alliancecm.org.

Greg gboozell at juno.com


>
>
> 9pm ET Snow protest
>
> Amy Goodman has reported that a new cable bill will delete public
> access TV- at 9pm ET for one minute these channels will air snow to
>
> protest.
>
>
> Marta
> ___________________________________
> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk
>
>



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list