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CT: Is the face of public access programming changing?

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:38:35 -0400

Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Is the face of public access programming changing?

Could revisions to a bill passed by the House last year change the way West Hartford residents view public access programming?

That's the question some public access leaders are asking after members of the Connecticut House of Representatives convened to revise the language of a 2007 bill deregulating the cable broadcasting market in the state. Supporters of the bill hoped it would stimulate competition by allowing new entrants into Connecticut's television broadcasting market.

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

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:13:20 -0400

from: Community Media Clippings

Video Clips of Connecticut Public Hearing on PEG Access TV
March 16, 2008
By

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:

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

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:06:39 -0400

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.

CT: Hartford Public Access May Be on U-verse After 18-Month Delay

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:18:23 -0400

from: New Haven Register

Hartford Public Access May Be on U-verse After 18-Month Delay

March 8, 2008
By Luther Turmelle

Local public access television channels could make their debut on AT&T’s U-verse system by sometime next month, 16 months after the service was launched in the state, company officials said Friday.

CT: Regular channels on AT$T sought for community access [extended report]

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:16:31 -0400

from: Record Journal

Regular channels on AT&T sought for community access [extended report]
by George Moore
MyRecordJournal.com (CT)
03/07/08

HARTFORD - Public television officials and others argued before the state legislature Friday that AT&T should be required to offer community access and government television as regular channels in its new U-verse television service.

CT: U-Verse:cable comparison of PEG

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 09:18:49 -0400

from: CTN

U-Verse:cable comparison of PEG

Over the past few months, AT&T has introduced its U-Verse to Connecticut. In the past week, the state legislature (in short session this year) has started to introduce amendments to the Certified Video Service Competition law from last year. On 3/8/08, the proposed bill had a hearing for almost 4 hours.

CT: Blogging interrupted by citizenship

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 09:13:56 -0400

from: Glimpses Through Stained Glass

Saturday, March 8, 2008
Blogging interrupted by citizenship

Members of the Energy & Technology Committee:

I, ..., current Chairman of the Cable Advisory Council Comcast Branford and Statewide Video Council designee; DO NOT SUPPORT HB5814, An Act Concerning Community Access Television. [I do however support Community Access TV in to the wee hours of the morning.]

CT: Public access channels may be on U-verse by next month

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 09:11:00 -0400

from: New Haven Register

Posted on Sat, Mar 8, 2008
Public access channels may be on U-verse by next month
By Luther Turmelle, North Bureau Chief

HARTFORD — Local public access television channels could make their debut on AT&T’s U-verse system by sometime next month, 16 months after the service was launched in the state, company officials said Friday.

CT: Regular channels on AT$T sought for community access

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 09:05:55 -0400

from: Record Journal

Regular channels on AT&T sought for community access
By: George Moore, Staff
03/07/2008

CT: Public access may be hard to access on U-verse

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:48:58 -0500

from: My Record journal

Public access may be hard to access on U-verse
By: George Moore, staff 8:20 pm
03/05/2008

WALLINGFORD - The ability to find public access shows while channel surfing will play a central role in a struggle between public access advocates and AT&T's new television service, U-verse.

CT: Exploded AT$T Batteries Raise Concerns - Video

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:26:20 -0500

Note: Attorney General Richard Blumenthal took AT&T to court when they refused to seek franchising in the state. He's likely to ride the company hard until they replace every battery in Connecticut.

from: WFSB News 3

Exploded AT&T Batteries Raise Concerns
Company Says It's Removing Batteries From Streets

CT: AT$T Got Special Favor

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 15:57:01 -0500

from: Hartford Business

LETTER TO THE EDITOR
AT&T Got Special Favor

12/03/07

To The Editor:

I take this opportunity as the state’s Consumer Counsel to address several inaccuracies in a letter to the editor filed on Nov. 12, 2007 by AT&T’s president in response to an editorial in the Journal (“Scrambled Signals,” October 29, 2007). This is a situation in which AT&T’s cries about fairness ring false: the loser here will be the state’s video services consumers and indeed the market for those services itself. AT&T has spent millions of dollars in a campaign around the country selling legislatures and regulators on the magic that could result from freeing it from regulation, without mentioning that where this one company “wins,” consumers and its competitors must necessarily lose.

CT: U-verse given the green light in Connecticut

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:35:16 -0500

from: Fierce IPTV

U-verse given the green light in Connecticut
November 6, 2007

AT&T has been granted a franchise for its IPTV U-verse service in Connecticut after a state court overturned a decision by the local utility regulator which required U-verse to have to get a franchise in each area in which it wanted to operate. The decision is an important precedent and clears the way for similar state-level clearance to facilitate the rapid roll out of the broadband infrastructure necessary to support IPTV and other high access services. AT&T becomes the first competitor to offer television services under a new state law designed to increase competition with the cable industry.

CT: IPTV and Consumer Choice

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:34:00 -0500

from: 7 Town TV

IPTV and Consumer Choice

It is the same story but CT is now the playing field Telecom

Throughout the entire time-line of public discourse about U-verse, which includes both regulatory & court proceedings, at&t has funded a marketing campaign that presents itself as a consumer choice organization (MoreConsumerChoice.org and wewantchoice.com). at&t is currently running the TV4US campaign with pro at&t letter being auto-generation to DPUC. This campaign strategically locates TV4US ADs near articles on the U-verse debate. (Such Ads have appeared in web version of NH Register, Record-Journal, Hartford Courant.) This is polluting the information integrity associated with this market competition issue.

CT: AT$T U-verse Deploys in Connecticut Stirs Controversy

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:27:32 -0500

from: Associated Content

AT&T U-verse Deploys in Connecticut Stirs Controversy
Can Someone Buy Your Free Speech?
By adelehouston

The free speech of hundreds of consumers was paid for in advertising funds expended by AT&T this year. In a recent campaign to deploy U-verse in Connecticut (a timeline of events can be found here; http://7towntv.org/ct_acm.htm ) a massive marketing campaign rallied consumers to fight for competition and fair prices. It was slick.