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from: Light Reading

AT&T Eyes Batteries in Explosion Probe

AUGUST 10, 2007

AT&T Inc. says it isn't finished investigating what caused one of its broadband equipment cabinets to explode in suburban Houston last year. The explosion, first reported by Light Reading, occurred in the 8200 block of Clover Gardens Drive, outside the home of an elderly couple in late October. (See AT&T Investigates DSLAM Explosion and AT&T Still Digging on DBLAM!)

from: Stamford Advocate

AT&T's fiber-optic TV is tied up in knots
By Brian Lockhart
Staff Writer

August 12, 2007

For months, AT&T has been attempting to lure Cablevision and satellite customers in Norwalk, Stamford and 33 other municipalities to its new U-verse fiber-optic television service.

from: Shegoygan Press

Community Conversations: Cable TV bill should match Illinois' new law

Posted August 12, 2007
By Curt Witynski

Wisconsinites deserve the same as Illinoisans when it comes to oversight of cable TV. Illinois recently passed a much more balanced cable bill than the industry drafted proposal currently before the Wisconsin Legislature. Wisconsin's "video competition" legislation, Assembly Bill 207, should contain the same consumer protections, public access television support, public rights-of-way safeguards, and benefits for property taxpayers as the new Illinois law.

from: The Capital Times

Cable TV bill, as written, is a gift to industry

Curt Witynski, guest columnist — 8/10/2007 11:58 am

Wisconsinites deserve the same as Illinoisans when it comes to oversight of cable TV. Illinois recently passed a much more balanced cable bill than the industry-drafted proposal currently before the Wisconsin Legislature.

from: Web Pro news

AT&T — Nobody Wants Our $10 DSL

AT&T’s new head is a smooth one, definitely Dapper Dan and not Fop. It takes a quarter-century of industry experience to tap dance around honest questions the way he does.

I don’t mean to sound hateful, just snarky. Straight answers are rarely present in my profession and it’d be nice to see one for a change.

from: Truth Dig

Radio for the People

Posted on Aug 7, 2007

By Amy Goodman

Rupert Murdoch is looking like the cat that ate the canary with his successful takeover of Dow Jones & Co. and its flagship newspaper, The Wall Street Journal. Media conglomerates like Murdoch’s News Corp. are among the most powerful corporations on the planet. His papers beat the drums for war while distracting with gossip and glitz.

from: Civil Defense

Media reform movement goes on the offensive

August 8, 2007

With a series of bills recently introduced in Congress, the media reform movement’s DC wing has finally gone on the offensive. The Community Broadband Act, the Broadband Data Improvement Act, and the Local Community Radio Act would break down significant barriers to expanding community media throughout the country.

from: Seven Days

Does Public-Access TV Still Matter in the YouTube Age?
CITIZEN MEDIA (08.08.07)

BURLINGTON — It’s hard to measure success in the unglamorous and often underappreciated world of public-access television. Chittenden Community Television (CCTV) channels don’t even register in the Nielsen ratings, and no one ever wins Emmys for their gavel-to-gavel coverage of city council meetings and water fluoridation debates.

from: Crains Detroit

Detroit, Comcast spar over fee
By Amy Lane
3:01 am, August 6, 2007

LANSING — A dispute between the city of Detroit and Comcast Corp. is driving legislation that would strengthen cities' ability to require certain fees from providers of cable TV and similar video services.

from: Rocky Mountain news

Qwest playing hardball to gain cable franchise

By Jeff Smith, Rocky Mountain News
August 7, 2007
Qwest Communications, rebuffed in previous efforts to land cable TV franchises in Colorado, is now playing hardball.

The Denver telco is giving the city of Arvada 90 days to decide whether to accept a video franchise application.