State Franchises

TN: Naifeh on cable-AT$T battle

Posted on February 7, 2008 - 8:48am.

The Nashville Post

Naifeh on cable-AT&T battle
Nashville Post
Ken Whitehouse
02/04/08

Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives Jimmy Naifeh was joined by two Republican colleagues in his office to guarantee to the media that "there will be a bill brought before the state legislature" in the ongoing battle of AT&T vs. Cable.

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

MO: City to pay out $200,000 a year for CAT operating costs

Posted on February 7, 2008 - 8:46am.

Columbian Missourian

City to pay out $200,000 a year for CAT operating costs
By EMILIE RUSCH
February 5, 2008 | 12:07 p.m. CST

COLUMBIA — Funding problems could finally be a thing of the past for Columbia Access Television after the City Council voted early Tuesday morning in favor of a five-year contract that would pay out $200,000 a year for operating costs starting next fiscal year.

( categories: MISSOURI | State Franchises )

TN: Naifeh wants AT$T, Comcast to agree

Posted on February 7, 2008 - 8:45am.

from: The Tennessean

Naifeh wants AT&T, Comcast to agree
Governor doubts rival cable businesses will compromise
By NAOMI SNYDER • Staff Writer • February 5, 2008

House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh and a bipartisan group of legislators vowed Monday to press ahead on legislation to allow AT&T to sell video services across Tennessee, despite doubts that a deal can be worked out with rival cable providers.

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

TN: AT$T's stand against franchising rules is potentially discriminatory

Posted on February 7, 2008 - 8:42am.

from: The Tennessean

AT&T's stand against franchising rules is potentially discriminatory

By BISHOP GEORGE PRICE • February 3, 2008

Almost a half-century ago, the battle for civil rights and equal opportunity raged throughout the communities of Tennessee.

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

Unscripted Ending: The picture gets blurry for public access television

Posted on February 7, 2008 - 8:32am.

from: Governing.com

Unscripted Ending
The picture gets blurry for public access television.

By JOSH GOODMAN

Public Access 2.0
Watch clips of shows on the "new" public access, YouTube

Every Monday evening for more than a decade in Portage, Indiana, Gordon Bloyer stirred up trouble. The middle-aged, mustachioed Bloyer used his 6:30 p.m. television talk show to lambast elected officials in the city of 35,000 on the shore of Lake Michigan. Not only were Portage politicians powerless to cancel the Gordon Bloyer Show — although at times they tried — they also were, in a sense, subsidizing Bloyer's attacks on them: His show appeared on public access television. "People would get all upset," Bloyer says, sounding satisfied. "So I figured that's good."

( categories: AT&T | State Franchises )

TN: Bredesen questions tactics in cable-permitting fight

Posted on February 2, 2008 - 8:33am.

from: Knox News

Bredesen questions tactics in cable-permitting fight
Governor says he may get involved in contentious proposal

Associated Press
Friday, February 1, 2008

CHATTANOOGA - Gov. Phil Bredesen is questioning the approach by House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh in the fight to change cable-permitting rules in Tennessee to encourage broadband access around the state.

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

FL: Leaders fight move of government channels to upper end of cable TV dial

Posted on February 2, 2008 - 8:31am.

from: Orlando Sentinel

Leaders fight move of government channels to upper end of cable TV dial

David Damron
Sentinel Staff Writer
February 1, 2008

Orange County Commissioner Teresa Jacobs is launching a statewide fight to stop cable companies from pushing government channels to the higher reaches of their digital-channel lineups.

( categories: FLORIDA | State Franchises )

CA: Broadcasting a warning for television

Posted on February 2, 2008 - 8:29am.

from: Palo Alto Daily News

Broadcasting a warning for television
Friday Feb 1

Media advocate: Public programming needs to be protected

By Kristina Peterson / Daily News Staff Writer
Congress got a taste of Palo Alto's civic engagement this week when a local media coordinator flew across the country to testify about the importance of preserving public access programming.

( categories: CALIFORNIA | State Franchises )

MI: Public Access Advocates Hoping to Hold on to Cable Channel

Posted on February 1, 2008 - 11:36am.

from: Flint journal

Public Access Advocates Hoping to Hold on to Cable Channel

January 30, 2008
By Joe Lawlor

He’s a slouching, white-haired government critic who shouts out of your television set and shakes his hands to make a point.

But Bob Leonard, the former Genesee County prosecutor, no longer appears on Comcast Channel 17.

( categories: AT&T | Comcast | MICHIGAN | State Franchises )

WI: Tornado destroys woman’s house: Time Warner Cable bills her $2,025.45

Posted on February 1, 2008 - 8:47am.

from: ZDNet

January 31st, 2008
Tornado destroyed woman’s house: then she gets this $2,025.45 bill from Time Warner Cable
Posted by Russell Shaw @ 3:21 pm

From Wisconsin’s Kenosha News comes this story that after a January 7 tornado demolished her home, and ensuing rain and snow made it a bear to fix, a woman from the area has received a $2,025.45 bill from her (now former, well duh) cable television service.

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