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Fighting for PEG, One State at a Time (Q&A with Bunnie Riedel, Multichannel News May 23, 2012)
Multichannel News May 2012
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PEG Advocates Remain Hopeful On CAP Act During Election Year
PEG Advocates Remain Hopeful On CAP Act During Election Year
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California Attorney General Punts to FCC on AT&T’s PEG Channel Inaccessibility to the Blind
January 4, 2012 Press Release In what American Community Television (ACT) calls a disappointing response, the office of Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General of California, issued a letter saying that it would wait until the FCC rules on a pending petition to address the inability of the blind and vision impaired to access PEG television [...]
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American Community Television Applauds Congressional Research Service Report on Public, Educational and Government (PEG) Access Television
October 26, 2011 Press Release A recent Congressional Research Service Report “Public, Educational and Government (PEG) Access Cable Television Channels: Issues for Congress,” details the challenges faced by PEG access television because of statewide franchising laws and actions by the Federal Communications Commission. “The study lays out what we have been saying all along,” said [...]
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American Community Television Calls on CenturyLink to Clarify How it Will Deliver PEG Channels
October 10, 2011 American Community Television (ACT) has sent a letter to Glenn F. Post, III (Chief Executive Officer and President of CenturyLink) asking for clarification of how CenturyLink intends to deliver Public, Educational and Government (PEG) access television channels on its system. “We received word that CenturyLink was considering using a platform akin to [...]
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Charter to Cut Off Service to First Responders
Press Release August 15, 2011 American Community Television (ACT) received word today that Charter Communications intends to cut off cable service to police and fire departments in small towns in Missouri, unless they now pay to receive these services. “Cable service to municipal buildings has been provided free of charge for over thirty years as [...]
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Attorneys General in Eight States Asked to Investigate U-verse PEG Inaccessibility for the Blind and Vision Impaired
July 14, 2011 Attorneys General in eight states have been asked to investigate how AT&T delivers Public, Educational and Government (PEG) access television on its U-verse platform. The letters to the Attorneys General highlight the fact that people who are blind or vision impaired cannot access the PEG channels through the on-screen menus. The letters [...]
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FCC Releases it’s Future of Media Report
ACT figures prominently in the report! New Media Report
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American Community Television Calls on AT&T to Make PEG Channels Available to the Blind and Vision Impaired Community
Press Release May 19, 2011 American Community Television (ACT) sent letters today to Randall Stephenson, the President of AT&T, and to Jacquelyn Brand, the chair of the AT&T Advisory Panel on Access & Aging, asking that AT&T deliver Public, Educational and Government (PEG) access channels the same as all other channels on the U-Verse system. [...]
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American Community Television Congratulates the City of Knoxville for Successfully Challenging AT&T