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House Sets Media Ownership Hearing for Dec. 6
from: TV Newsday
House Sets Media Ownership Hearing for Dec. 6
November 2, 2007
The Committee on Energy and Commerce announced today that it will hold a hearing on Thursday, Dec. 6, to explore issues relating to media ownership and the FCC’s pending media ownership proceeding. The Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet and the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will jointly preside over the hearing.
WI: AT$T's Wisconsin Network Finds Broad Support for Video "Choice"
from: PR Watch
AT&T's Wisconsin Network Finds Broad Support for Video "Choice"
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on Tue, 10/30/2007 - 16:36.
It's no secret that polls are used to shape public opinion at least as much as they're used to measure it. The website of one major U.S. polling firm, the Mellman Group, boasts its "extensive experience developing effective communications strategies that lead people to choose our client's product or service, join their organization, hold their opinion, or vote as we would like."
TN: Tennessee Getting Wired For The Future
from: chattanoogan.com
Tennessee Getting Wired For The Future
by Drew Ruble
posted November 4, 2007
The last thing a person would expect to find after pushing through the solid brass doors of the nearly Century-old neoclassical Giles County courthouse on the historic downtown Pulaski square is a high tech communications nerve center resembling something out of a futuristic Hollywood movie. But inside, beneath the contemporary offices of “PES Energize,” the telecommunications services arm of local utility Pulaski Electric Service, which is headquartered there, lies a state-of-the-art data center housed within a tornado-proof bunker with fully redundant systems ready to support any size off-site data storage need. It’s also the focal point of a publicly-owned and operated $8.2 million fiber-optic network providing high speed Internet access and other telecom services through pieces of glass cable weaving like a piece of spaghetti to every home, business, factory and school in Pulaski, population 7,875.
WI: AT$T gets to write its own telecom rules
from: Tomah Journal
Published - Sunday, November 04, 2007
Column: AT&T gets to write its own telecom rules
By Kathleen Vinehout
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A man from Eau Claire called this week. He was suspicious by a post card that came in the mail. “AT&T wants me to ask my senator for competition in cable. Don’t they really want something else?” He was looking for direction.
WI: Local communications union pulls support of video bill
from: Madison.com
Local communications union pulls support of video bill
Judith Davidoff and David Callender — 11/01/2007 12:11 pm
Though AT&T says good jobs will go to its workers if the state passes a proposed video franchise bill, the largest union local in its Wisconsin workforce is not buying it.
WI: Some support for cable competition bill eroding
Note: PEG is headed for a fall in Wisconsin unless rational minds somehow prevail. This will be a fight to the end but with the big corporate money involved the odds are tilted. Unfortunately, we can no longer count the CWA amongst the rational in this fight. Despite the support of at least one right thinking local, the CWA at the state and national level are placing their own self-interest above the public interest, and in Wisconsin they are actively out canvasing for AT&T's bill, sad but true.
Threats to public access?
from: VCAM Blog
Threats to public access?
On October 31st, the FCC made some decisions concerning media ownership and franchising rules that could adversely affect public, educational and government access centers nationwide. It’s one more push towards a cliff that PEG centers have been inching closer to over the last several years. Basically, the FCC is attempting to remove rules that permit local franchising authorities (in this case, the Vermont Public Service Board) from requiring cable companies to set aside funds for PEG services.
I Want My Community TV: Public Access Television Faces Threats
from: Toward Freedom
I Want My Community TV: Public Access Television Faces Threats
Written by Megan Tady
Tuesday, 30 October 2007
Imagine you know a thief is going to pilfer your television in the middle of the night? Most likely, you would take action to stop it – lock your doors, hide your TV, or in one last ditch effort for revenge, at least hide your remote. Imagine you knew that in the broadest of daylight, corporations and government were going to pinch not your television, but the only TV channels that give you, the citizen, a voice and a hand in local programming? Well grab your bat, because there’s someone at your door.
Fiber's Open Spaces
from: IP Business Magazine
Fiber's Open Spaces
By Martin Vilaboy
There may be up to 360 providers currently offering fiber to the home in the U.S., but Verizon, it’s estimated, accounts for about two thirds of the 2.14 million U.S homes now connected to fiber. It’s safe to assume, however, that not many of the homes Verizon is passing reside in rural areas, as suburban and urban regions with higher concentrations of office locations are likely to produce lower hanging fruit.
Fiber Optic Nerve
from: Business Tennessee
Fiber Optic Nerve
November 2, 2007
By Drew Ruble
The last thing a person would expect to find after pushing through the solid brass doors of the nearly century-old neoclassical Giles County courthouse on the historic downtown Pulaski square is a high-tech communications nerve center.
