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CT: Video Clips of Connecticut Public Hearing on PEG Access TV

Posted on March 17, 2008 - 10:13pm.

from: Community Media Clippings

Video Clips of Connecticut Public Hearing on PEG Access TV
March 16, 2008
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On March 7 Connecticut's Joint Committee on Energy & Technology held a 4-hour hearing on HB 5814, a bill to amend their recent statewide video franchising law. Connecticut PEG access advocates are asking to have two essential protections added:

( categories: AT&T | CONNECTICUT | State Franchises )

Verizon to New England: Bye-Bye

Posted on March 17, 2008 - 10:11pm.

from: Computer World

Verizon to New England: Bye-Bye

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March 12, 2008
By Robert L. Mitchell

It looks like the Verizon selloff of its Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont landline business to FairPoint Communications is a done deal. All three states have given their approval, with conditions. That deal will have a huge impact on the evolution of high speed broadband in Northern New England.

( categories: Verizon )

FCC Black Tuesday: This place is hell; silent protest planned

Posted on March 17, 2008 - 10:09pm.

from: Ars Technica

FCC insider: This place is hell; silent protest planned

By Matthew Lasar | Published: March 16, 2008 - 05:19PM CT

A Federal Communications Commission employee called me on Friday and said that this Tuesday, the third anniversary of Kevin Martin's tenure as Chair of the FCC, at least some staff will arrive at work dressed in black. A "silent but expressive protest" is what they're calling the move. What for? I asked. "Because this place is hell," came the reply.

( categories: FCC )

CT: U-Verse's Sorry Excuse For Public Access TV

Posted on March 17, 2008 - 10:06pm.

from: Broadband Reports

U-Verse's Sorry Excuse For Public Access TV
CT's version of public access CSPAN a little annoyed....
Monday Mar 17 2008 by Karl

As Verizon and AT&T lobbyists worked to eliminate the local video franchise system, consumer advocates pointed out that such moves resulted in the death of public access.

( categories: AT&T | CONNECTICUT | State Franchises )

AR: Public access TV may be on ropes

Posted on March 17, 2008 - 10:03pm.

from: Saline County Voice

Public access TV may be on ropes
Lewis Delavan

Public access television's future may be threatened.

No, not really from an irate alderman upset with programming, although backers of Benton's public access Channel 12 may think so.

The greatest threat to Channel 12 and community public access stations across the country is state, rather than local, control of content.

( categories: ARKANSAS | State Franchises )

TN: Commission hears cable competition proposal

Posted on March 17, 2008 - 10:02pm.

from: Times Free Press

Commission hears cable competition proposal

By Holly Cowart
Community News Assistant Editor

Soddy-Daisy commissioners did not vote on a resolution supporting competition in the cable industry at their March 6 meeting, but expect to on March 20.

( categories: AT&T | State Franchises | TENNESSEE )

IL: Kankakee County tuning in local TV

Posted on March 16, 2008 - 11:18am.

from: The Daily Journal

Kankakee County tuning in local TV
03/14/2008, 9:37 am

By John Stewart

Anybody can post a video on YouTube.com with a cheap Web cam and an even cheaper microphone.

But not everyone gets on television or can make a video that gets on television. That's because television still has a "mystique," according to Steve Bertrand, assistant director of the Kankakee Public Library.

( categories: AT&T | ILLINOIS | State Franchises )

Union Made - CWA, Ball State and Indiana

Posted on March 15, 2008 - 10:48am.

from: Ridel Communications

Thursday, March 13, 2008
Union Made

There once was a union maid, she never was afraid
Of goons and ginks and company finks and the deputy sheriffs who made the raid.
She went to the union hall when a meeting it was called,
And when the Legion boys come 'round
She always stood her ground.

( categories: AT&T | INDIANA | State Franchises )

PEGspace at Drupalcon 2008

Posted on March 15, 2008 - 10:47am.

from: Community Media in Transition

PEGspace at Drupalcon 2008
March 12th, 2008 by Colin Rhinesmith

PEGspace Drupal Group

For those interested in learning more about the intersection of Public Access Television and free and open source software, Jason Daniels (medfield.tv) forwarded along a link to audio & meeting minutes from a gathering of public broadcasting and public access media folks during the recent Drupal conference held in Boston, this year. Here’s a bit from the description:

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Were Telcos Justified in Warrantless Wiretaps?

Posted on March 15, 2008 - 10:44am.

from: Light Reading

Were Telcos Justified in Warrantless Wiretaps?
MARCH 14, 2008

Democrats and Republicans in Congress are divided over a critical telecom issue: wiretapping. Are the U.S.'s largest phone companies liable for assisting the federal government in carrying out warrantless wiretaps?

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