From: "Drumm, Daniel L." <DRUMM@uwec.edu> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 15:03:30 -0500 Subject: Friday's press release re PEG on basic Message-ID: <EEA4CA65D05DC54E874A89D9F51868194FA7A31BE6@CHERRYCOKE.uwec.edu>
From: Dan [mailto:dan@jenanddan.com] On Behalf Of sfpj@listserve.uwec.edu
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 12:39 AM
To: Dan
Subject: Friday's press release re PEG on basic
Dear Friends of CTV,
In case you haven't heard, Charter Communications has announced that they w
ill keep the CTV Channels on the analog basic tier after all and they will
be lighting us up on the digital tier at 993 for the Education, Public Acce
ss Channel (Currently 11) and 994 for the Government Channel (Currently 12)
. End of good news. The bad news? CTV channels 11 and 12 will move to 96 a
nd 97 respectively on the analog tier for an undetermined period of time.
These changes will be effective on September 30. As WAPC Exec. Director, Ma
ry Cardona suggests in her attached news release, this is a vast improvemen
t over Charter's previous announcement that they would discontinue analog d
istribution of CTV, which would have cut CTV away from nearly half of Chart
er's subscribers.
To call this a victory for anyone rings hollow. Even Charter has demonstrat
ed to it's customers that community affairs have taken a back seat. It do
es not kill us, it weakens us again and makes it unnecessarily harder to pr
ovide our service. Given that and the passage of The Cable Deregulation Act
(42) earlier this year, this is probably the best outcome we can hope for
without remedial legislation in Madison.
Just remember, the CTV auction will be on Channels 96 and 97... and 993 and
994 on November 3 and 4.
Pass the word. Thank you again for your support of Community Television.
Joel Desprez, Executive Director
Community Television
800 Wisconsin St.
Eau Claire, WI 54703
Phone: 715.839.5067 Fax: 715.839.6261
email: jzd@cvctv.org web: cvctv.org
It is not incumbent upon you to finish the task. Yet, you are not free to d
esist from it" Pirkei Avot (2:19-20)
-----Original Message-----
From: Mary Cardona, WAPC [mailto:wapc@tds.net]
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 8:57 AM
To: WAPC.Members@outbound2.mail.tds.net
Subject: Friday's press release re PEG on basic
I wanted to make sure all of you received this press release that was sent
to about 10 reporters around the state.
I am very pleased that Charter will keep PEG on the basic tier. Believe me,
without the pressure from WAPC, this would not have happened.
At this time, we will not be pursuing an injunction. Moving our channels ar
ound the basic tier, even though the channels are in the Siberia of analog
is within Charter's discretion, unfortunately. If Charter does give notice
of carrying the channels only in the digital format before the company tran
sitions entirely to digital, we will let you know and we will pursue the in
junction.
Thank you to all of the cities who were considering being plaintiffs in the
injunction and to all of you who have given to the legal fund.
Even though we did not pursue the injunction, we did incur a large legal bi
ll researching this issue and presenting it to Charter and to those who wer
e in a position to help us. Please give generously to WAPC to help us cover
these costs! We will be in touch about this in the next few days.
Mary
Mary Cardona
Executive Director
Wisconsin Association of PEG Channels
ph: 608-215-5594
fax: 608-233-6148
wapc@tds.net
<smaller>Mary Cardona
Executive Director
Wisconsin Association of PEG Channels
ph: 608-215-5594
fax: 608-233-6148
</smaller>