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from: Source News

Fight continues against Comcast

By DEANNA ROSE
Source Staff Writer

Several area officials and legislators decided last week to introduce state legislation that would prohibit the Comcast cable company from moving the existing channel locations for community government and schools channels from their current low-numbered channels to digital channels in the 900s.

from: Detroit Free Press

Comcast channel changes opposed
Bill in the works would force return to original format

January 11, 2008

By CHRISTY ARBOSCELLO

FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER

Michigan lawmakers are crafting a bill to reverse Comcast's plan to exile public access programming from the low-numbered stations to digital-only channels positioned in the 900s.

from: Consumer Affairs

House Committee To Probe FCC
FCC instructed to retain e-mail records for use by investigators

by Martin H. Bosworth
ConsumerAffairs.Com

January 10, 2008

Even as Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair Kevin Martin was promising that his agency would investigate Comcast on charges of blocking Internet access, the House Energy and Commerce Committee announced its own plans to investigate the FCC's legislative rulemaking and rulings of late.

from: Lansing State Journal

Published January 11, 2008

Public TV: Comcast shift on public access enhances importance of Web
A Lansing State Journal editorial

Communities across mid-Michigan are running into the fallout of a 2006 state law altering oversight of cable television. The consensus view appears to be one of unhappiness at changes in which community content will appear.

Note: Connect Kentucky has been something of the poster child for public/private broadband initiatives but there has been little critical analysis of it's past record. You know there is something up when the telcos, politicians and the CWA all support the same model - yet solid criticism has been hard to find. Now, Art Brodsky of Pubic Knowledge gives a thorough and long overdue look at ConnectKy's record and past.

from: Broadcasting and Cable

Comcast Pledges Cooperation with FCC on Broadband Service
Executive VP Cohen: Cable Operator Will Answer Any Federal Communications Commission Questions on Service Policies
By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 1/9/2008 12:23:00 PM

Comcast said Wednesday that it is ready to work with the Federal Communications Commission on any questions it has about the company's broadband service.

from: Macomb Daily

PUBLISHED: Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Legislators fight cable channel switches

Comcast moving stations used by communities, schools to 900s.

By Frank DeFrank
Macomb Daily Staff Writer

State lawmakers may try to stop Comcast and other cable television companies from relocating government-access channels to less-frequented areas of the dial.

from: NY Times

January 8, 2008, 7:07 pm
AT&T and Other ISPs May Be Getting Ready to Filter

By Brad Stone

For the past fifteen years, Internet service providers have acted - to use an old cliche - as wide-open information super-highways, letting data flow uninterrupted and unimpeded between users and the Internet.

from: NY Times

January 9, 2008
F.C.C. to Look at Complaints Comcast Interferes With Net
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Federal Communications Commission will investigate complaints that Comcast actively interferes with Internet traffic as its subscribers try to share files online, the commission’s chairman, Kevin J. Martin, said Tuesday.

from: STL Today

January 08, 2008 08:00 AM Eastern Time
Move over Bells: Comcast Corporation Becomes the Fourth-Largest Phone Service Provider in the U.S.
2008 International CES

PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq:CMCSK) (Nasdaq:CMCSA), the nation’s leading provider of entertainment, information and communications, today announced it has become the fourth-largest residential phone service provider in the United States.