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Written by Andrea Price
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Saturday, 20 May 2006 |
If you want to see public access TV in Indianapolis, now is the time to act. Bright House Network’s urgent request for its local cable franchise renewal before July 1, 2006 is the best opportunity we have had in 10 years, and if we do not make the most of it, it may be another ten years – likely more – before central Indianapolis has this chance again.
Aside from the channel, the new franchise agreement should include:
- Additional public access television channels for growth
- Compensation and adequate notice for public, education and government (PEG) channel number changes
- PEG program listings in all cable programming guides, print and electronic
- PEG program participation in video on demand services
- Connection of any local community media center(s) to Bright House Networks
- Technology parity for PEG access channels with other cable channels
- Free promotional spots and billing inserts
- PEG funding support
Comcast customers must join in too. The support we muster for public access television on Bright House Networks becomes the support to leverage with the Indiana Utilities Regulatory Commission (IURC) to get a public access TV channel on Comcast under the new state video franchising law. We have must not let this opportunity pass us by.
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