WASHINGTON—New legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate last week would prevent cable TV operators from claiming the expense of public, educational and government (PEG) channels as in-kind ...

PEG channels—public, educational, and government programming that generally takes the form of city council meetings and plays from the local middle school—are being treated as second-class citizens on ...

Public, Educational and Government (PEG) access television channels are under increasing pressure from channel-hungry cable operators, and state legislatures and federal agencies aren’t helping much, ...

SILVERTHORNE – Breckenridge Town Manager Tim Gagen says cable TV channel 10 was always the town’s public access channel, and the local Resort Sports Network (RSN) affiliate understood its use of the ...

Iowa City’s public access channel, PATV Channel 18, has joined the Alliance for Community Media to gain support of Iowa lawmakers for the Community Access Preservation Act, which would restore funding ...

The two-year-old lawsuit brought against cable television giant Comcast by a handful of Michigan towns and their community-access television stations ended quietly earlier this year. There was a ...

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Characterizing a proposed Federal Communications Commission rule change as an “existential threat” to community television, Sen. Ed Markey has urged other states to follow Massachusetts’ lead in ...

WASHINGTON—The FCC this week adopted new rules that prohibit excessive franchise fees and explains that local governments may not regulate most non-cable services, including broadband internet access ...

The head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Communications has asked the Senate to support a bill that would preserve the presence of community access cable channels on local ...

On October 20, Community Media Day, Public Media Network (PMN) celebrated forty years of operating Kalamazoo, Michigan’s Public, Educational, and Governmental (PEG) access cable channels. Distinct ...

Public, educational and government (PEG) channels across the U.S. have been closing and consolidating over the last few years. This is the result of: (1) the economic downturn’s impact on municipal ...