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July 17, 2008

09:08
Consumer, Reform and Media Justice Groups React to N.Y. State Public Service Commission Approval of Verizon Cable Franchise
08:57
Deficiencies in the U-Verse PEG System Confirmed by AT&T

July 10, 2008

15:09
Diverse Coalition Calls on U.S. Representatives to Co-sponsor Local Community Radio Act

July 8, 2008

10:02
Assessing the Damage
State video franchise laws have swept the nation in the past few years, including passage of the Cable and Video Competition Law of 2007 in Illinois. The change from regulation by local governments to state law has resulted in harm to public benefits in many states around the nation.read more
09:58
Video Sharing Capability to Debut at ACM Conference
The Server Standards Work Group (SSWG) of the Alliance for Community Media (ACM) announced today that they will debut a new Video File Sharing Social Network at the Alliance For Community Media’s International Conference and Exhibition held here from July 9-12.read more
08:19
Cable Franchising Bills No Help to Consumers, Says Survey
State cable franchising bills have not led to lower cable rates, and support for public access channels has eroded in those states with such schemes, according to a survey conducted by the Alliance for Community Media and the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors.read more

July 7, 2008

10:24
Put the Public Back into Public Broadcasting
As The Post editorialized on June 18, Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast are in danger of losing their "precious public asset" - WXEL. We agree.read more

July 1, 2008

08:47
Court Backs Cable Competition
A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the Federal Communications Commission’s authority to set rules meant to make it easier for new cable television competitors to gain local franchises.read more

June 27, 2008

02:00
Media Minutes: June 27, 2008

June 25, 2008

12:35
The Black Stake, and All Our Stakes, in the Media Justice Movement
Mass media determine public consciousness. But in the US, where mass media are owned and operated almost entirely by and in the interest of a greedy and irresponsible corporate elite, who keep the issues of control and governance of the internet, cable, broadcast and other media off the table. read more

June 23, 2008

10:23
Tell Congress to Save Public Broadcasting
Throwing the remote at the TV or yelling at the radio after another unbelievable comment from a TV anchor (terrorist fist-bump, anyone?) sure does help to relieve some pent up frustration against the news media. But a busted remote certainly won’t get us any closer to getting more real news on our airwaves.read more
07:54
Low Power to the People
Money talks on the radio. The airwaves are full of voices backed by the millions of dollars it takes to buy a commercial radio station. Clear Channel Communications, for example, owns more than 1,200 of them. But how do America's smaller, average-income voices get heard? read more
06:34
New York FiOS Deal Approval Expected Soon
Verizon expects New York City officials to approve its FiOS cable franchising deal by next month, a top executive said Wednesday.read more

June 20, 2008

10:48
CPB Statement on the House Appropriations Subcommittee's Proposed Funding Levels for 2009 and 2011
Today, the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education ("Labor-HHS") approved the Fiscal Year 2009 appropriations bill that provides funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). read more
10:45
House Committee OKs Advance Funds for Public Broadcasting
What a difference a new Congress makes.A House Appropriations Subcommittee has not only continued to grant the Corporation for Public Broadcasting advance funding, it has agreed to a $430 million appropriation for FY 2011 that is $10 million more than 2010.read more

June 17, 2008

06:48
Louisiana Senate Approves Video Franchise Bill
[Editor's note: This is an excerpt from the article.]The Senate gave final legislative approval to a change in the way cable television providers win franchise rights in Louisiana.read more

June 11, 2008

09:21
Signal Interference: Tuning into the definition of 'Corporate Media'
There was an awkward moment at the end of “Minnesota Model: Countering Corporate Media,” a panel discussion at this weekend’s National Conference on Media Reform.Alas, I must admit that I was the one who caused it.read more
08:40
AT&T Access Plan Challenged
AT&T's plan for public access on its U-verse video service -- which the company calls "innovative" and critics call inadequate -- is being challenged in Illinois.read more

June 2, 2008

07:54
Are You Addicted to Public Access Television?
This is a column for the real intellectuals. The book-reading, newspaper-devouring, spectacle-wearing, square-peg types you want as your Trivial Pursuit partner.You know, the ones who watch public access television.read more

May 30, 2008

10:22
Selling a War
The U.S. House of Representatives has angrily and appropriately lashed out at a Pentagon program that used retired senior military officers as propaganda surrogates to sell the Iraq war.read more