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Live Blogging during PEG Congressional Hearing
from: Free Press
Live Blogging during PEG Congressional Hearing
Submitted by IraFP on January 25, 2008 - 9:07am.
On Tuesday, Jan. 29, the Free Press Action Network will hold a live-blogging session during the congressional hearing on Public, Educational, and Governmental (PEG) services in the digital TV age. Activists and community leaders will be discussing the hearing as it unfolds.
Study Finds Television Stations Donate an Average of 17 Seconds an Hour to Public Service Advertising
from: Kaiser Family Foundation
Shouting to be Heard (2): Public Service Advertising in a Changing Television World
Broadcast and cable stations donated an average of 17 seconds an hour to PSAs, totaling one-half of one percent of all TV airtime, according to the study, Shouting to be Heard (2): Public Service Advertising in a Changing Television World, released by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The most frequent time period for PSAs to air was between midnight and 6 a.m., accounting for 46% of donated PSAs across all stations in the study; looking only at broadcast stations, 60% of donated PSAs ran overnight. The time period with the fewest donated PSAs was during prime time (8-11 p.m.), with 13% of all donated PSAs.
The report was released on Thursday, January 24, 2008, at a forum that featured Federal Communications Commission Members Michael Copps, Jonathan Adelstein, and Deborah Taylor Tate along with representatives from News Corporation, CBS, Time Warner, Univision, the Ad Council and the American Legacy Foundation.
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Study Finds Television Stations Donate an Average of 17 Seconds an Hour to Public Service Advertising
Broadcast and cable stations donated an average of 17 seconds an hour to PSAs, totaling one-half of one percent of all TV airtime, according to the study, Shouting to be Heard (2): Public Service Advertising in a Changing Television World, released by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The most frequent time period for PSAs to air was between midnight and 6 a.m., accounting for 46% of donated PSAs across all stations in the study; looking only at broadcast stations, 60% of donated PSAs ran overnight. The time period with the fewest donated PSAs was during prime time (8-11 p.m.), with 13% of all donated PSAs.
TN: Watson seeks citizens’ input on video measure
from: Cleveland Daily Banner
Watson seeks citizens’ input on video measure
By David Davis Managing Editor
Published January 24, 2008 10:45 AM EDT
A local state representative is asking for citizen input on a bill authorizing statewide franchises to companies providing video services.
CA: Ojai's Public Access May Be Closed
from: Ojai Valley News
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Ojai's Public Access May Be Closed
If Time Warner inks deal with state, it will likely be curtains for local television shows
By Nao Braverman
Public access television stations, known to feature quirky television shows with all the amateur charm of low-budget production and editing, may be heading for demise in California, and even sooner in Ojai.
MI: Comcast got caught, trying to be slick
from: The Third Eye
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Comcast got caught (temporarily), trying to be slick
To be able to win a cable franchise, the company must provide public, educational and governmental (PEG) access. Such access bring us programs, ranging from exotic cooking, to school board meetings, to one-man and one-woman shows.
TN: Oh, yeah, let’s make AT$T only answer to the state. That’ll work
from: Murfreesboro Post
Oh, yeah, let’s make AT&T only answer to the state. That’ll work
By MIKE PIRTLE, Publisher/President
Those of you old enough to remember the popular TV show, “Laugh-in,” probably also remember an ongoing skit by Lilly Tomlinson in which she portrayed a telephone operator.
CA: AT$T Says Attack Misinformed
Note: The 'attacks' in question were hardly misinformed - only AT&T's response can be considered misinformation. AT&T places regional PEG channels on a Channel 99 submenu on their U-verse system - a submenu list that could grow to over a hundred becoming increasingly unwieldy and useless. This is a side-effect of telco/cable providers moving to a regional head-end, eliminating local head-in systems for cost efficiencies (think Clear Channel and the loss of localism).
CA: Santa Clarita has a year to figure out a way to save public channel
from: The Signal
City Eyeing Public Access TV Options
Santa Clarita has a year to figure out a way to save public channel.
By Katherine Geyer
Signal Staff Writer
Monday January 21, 2008
The city of Santa Clarita will spend the next year figuring out how to continue providing programming on its public access channel thanks to a 2006 state law that relieves cable companies of the responsibility of operating a public access studio beginning in 2009.
The Fight for the Dial
From: Weekly Alibi
The Fight for the Dial
January 17, 2008
By Marisa Demarco
To give Dixon, N.M., a radio station, Clark Case dug up about $20,000.
Clear Channel spends more. “To put a good, solid FM, one single FM radio station, on the air, it’s a good $3 million to $4 million investment depending on what you do in your studios and the type of equipment you get. And that’s before you even open a door,” says Chuck Hammond, general manager of Clear Channel Radio Albuquerque.
With Comcast Under Fire, Vuze Enjoys Growth Surge
from: Information Week
With Comcast Under Fire, Vuze Enjoys Growth Surge
From InformationWeek, January 18, 2008
By Richard Martin
While controversy swirls around the struggle between traditional big-pipe entertainment providers to the home — specifically the cable carriers and namely Comcast, the nation’s largest cable TV service — and providers of online peer-to-peer content services, particularly BitTorrent, the market for online movies and other forms of content continues to grow apace.
