from: Community Media Clippings [1]

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:

1) The bill should require any new video service providers to present all PEG access channels with the equivalent quality, accessibility and functionality of all other channels, as current cable providers do; and

2) all new video service providers shall bear the equipment and transmission costs of receiving the PEG access channels' signals, as current cable providers do.

Both of these concerns stem from AT&T's stated intentions in this state and others 1) to carry PEG channels in a significantly degraded fashion on its U-Verse service, and 2) to charge the PEG access providers for both the equipment and transmission costs necessary in order to receive their signals.

To watch the video clips, click here.