Re: Covering the city council

["Marc Lemay" <mmkc@msn.com>]

Its my understanding that yes, a public access station could apply for an
LPTV license.  On the other hand, a "local orginiation (LO)" station might
not be able to because it is operated by the cable company rather than a
non-profit org. like a public access station.

There has been speculation that our local access station had been
considering the matter - but it has lost its momentium.

Marc Lemay
Former Asst. Mgr.
Medford Community Television - TV 3

----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Fitzpatrick <fitzradio@map.com>
To: David Moisan <dmoisan@shore.net>;
<boston-radio-interest@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 6:40 PM
Subject: RE: Covering the city council


> Question...
>
> Could a public access TV station apply for a LPTV educational license? or
> are they only supposed to be exclusive to the cable system.
>
>
> --MIKE
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> > [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of David
> > Moisan
> > Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 5:43 PM
> > To: boston-radio-interest@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu
> > Subject: Re: Covering the city council
> >
> >
> > At 11:47 PM 3/26/2000 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> > >Are these carried by the cable company or by the local access channel?
> > >They are usually different entities.  In Brookline, the Board of
> > >Selectmen, Town Meeting, etc. are carried by Brookline Access
> > >Television, not by Cablevision.
> > >
> > Moreover, this even depends on the franchise agreement that a city makes
> > with its cable company.  Some public access studios are run by
> > the company.
> >  Others--like Salem Access TV, where I am on the board--are independent
> > not-for-profit corporations.
> >
> > In general, cable companies don't want to run public access, and try to
> > shift it off to someone else, or even close it down.  The latter
scenario
> > has happened in Beverly, and M1, which also owns Marblehead's community
> > station, wants to divest itself of city-council telecasting.
> >
> > It's ironic that RCN was the topic of that selectman's meeting
referenced,
> > but I don't think it was purposeful.  They just flat out don't want to
do
> > it and were it not for federal law, SATV's 3 channels as well as other
> > public access channels, would just as soon belong to commercial
> > concerns or
> > even PBS (which considers public access unprofessional and beneath their
> > concern except for the bandwidth they represent.)
> >
> >
> > Take care,
> >
> > Dave
> > Not speaking for SATV
> >
> >
> > David Moisan, N1KGH   ARES/SKYWARN                dmoisan@shore.net
> > Invisible Disability:
> > http://www1.shore.net/~dmoisan/invisible_disability.html
> > ATS-909 FAQ:  http://www1.shore.net/~dmoisan/faqs/sangean/ats909faq.html
> >
>
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