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Whats new ??? 3-2003 , city steals 1.6 millon dollars from what should be money for a community tv studio to fund UPGRADES in the govermenat PRIVATE net , called 'INET' ( from modeto city meeting agenda ) 24. Consider approving a General Fund loan in the amount of $1.6 million to upgrade the City Institutional Network (INET) and requesting Comcast to implement a $.25/month cable subscriber passthrough fee which will be applied to repayment of the General Fund and/or operation of the INET system. · Resolution approving a General Fund loan in the amount of $1.6 million to upgrade the City Institutional Network (INET) and requesting Comcast to implement a $.25/month cable subscriber passthrough fee which will be applied to repayment of the General Fund and/or operation of the INET system recommended. Information Technology; Joyce Engberg, 577-5229, jengberg@modestogov.com not FOR the Public Agenda on Modesto City Council meeting for Tues 2/11/2003... 7. Consider amending the Policies and Proceduresjune-2001
related to cable programming. · Time restrictions related to the playback of programming containing indecent material. · Indemnification forms and content surveys completed by AccessModesto Community Television users. · Limiting the number of playback times on the Public Access channel to two per week for all programs, with a maximum cap of three per week if availability allows, excluding contractual agreements. · Pre-emption of programming for all city-related news conferences. · Specifications to the Violation & Appeal processes. · Role of the Local Cable Programming Committee. · Revising format of Channel 27 to include Public Access, with a priority to Education. · Resolution amending the Policies and Procedures regarding cable programming issues. City Miss Manager; Renee Ledbetter, 577-5222, rledbetter@modestogov.com ** summery local goverment workers have been asked by ( corporate media ? or local cartell ) to add more limits and hurdles for local producers , keeping decent and learning programms off the air. Renee was able to KILL the public access studio under orders from the cable tv corporation? ( that wants to sell tv time to folks , and not give free access to the public airwavs or a free speech tv studio .....)
4) Consider amending AccessModesto Policies and Procedures
related to programming that contains indecent material
ACTION: The Committee accepted
lame staff recommendations regarding the Policy and Procedures
related the following issues: 1. Time restrictions related to the playback of
programming containing indecent material set at 1:00 to 4:00 AM. ... 8. Revising format of Channel 27 to include Public Access,
with a priority to Education.
(but not MJC , education , no need for that level of service , )
ACTION ALERT: ( from www.fair.org ) FCC Moves to Eliminate Cable Ownership Cap; Move Would Also Impact Internet
December 21, 2001
The Federal Communications Commission is moving to eliminate one of the few remaining vestiges of public interest regulation on media concentration-- the rules that limit the percentage of the national audience that a single cable company can reach. If existing rules limiting a single company to 30 percent of the national market are abandoned, the country's cable TV industry, now dominated by just eight companies, could be controlled by as few as two. Such consolidation threatens the diversity not just of cable TV but also of the Internet, since cable is likely to eventually be the way most people get Internet access. Just two days after the September 11 attacks, the FCC moved to review both the cable ownership cap and the "cross-ownership" rules that keep a single company from owning both a newspaper and a TV station in the same geographic area. (See FAIR Action Alert, http://www.fair.org/activism/ownership-comment.html .) FCC reviews include a mandatory public comment period to give Americans a chance to weigh in on proposed regulations. The public comment period for the cross-ownership rules closed on December 3, 2001, but the public has until January 4 to weigh in on the cable ownership cap. Cable mega-companies like AOL Time Warner have aggressively moved to eliminate even the most modest of public interest regulations, claiming that any such rules impinge on their First Amendment rights. Despite the dubious idea of a "right" that only two giant corporations could take advantage of, a D.C. Court of Appeals accepted that argument, striking down the federal limit on the size of cable companies in March 2001; on December 3, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review that decision. Several recent court rulings have favored media corporations' desire to grow ever larger and more concentrated; the FCC could resist, by offering justification for its regulations, but few observers expect the agency to do so. "If the Federal Communications Commission is heading in the direction many predict that it is, a new era of mega-media mergers may be on its way," reports the New York Law Journal (10/4/01). "The way to bet here is that they will loosen the rules," adds analyst and former FCC official Blair Levin. "Looser" rules will very likely also mean higher cable rates for consumers; since the deregulatory Telecommunications Act of 1996, cable rates have risen nearly three times as fast as inflation. Those concerned about preserving the democratic potential of the Internet should take heed: "AOL Time Warner and other cable companies are seeking to dramatically overturn the limits on cable system ownership precisely so they can control the key access point for the Internet marketplace," explains the Center for Digital Democracy. The FCC needs to hear from the public now, the CDD's Jeff Chester told CounterSpin (12/21/01), in order "to assure openness and diversity in cable and in the internet's future." ACTION: Please let the FCC know that allowing further media consolidation by lifting the cable ownership cap will not serve the public interest. The Center for Digital Democracy has created a special form that allows citizens to automatically file comments with the FCC. To access that form, go to:
http://www.democraticmedia.org/getinvolved/fccfiling2.html
For more details on the FCC's efforts to weaken ownership rules, see the Center for Digital Democracy's in-depth resources: http://www.democraticmedia.org/issues/mediaownership/index.html
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