Obstacles
“describe any obstacles you believe impact audience maintenance and growth”
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In case you hadn’t noticed, PURA changed the application form. Find it here. Deadline is February 28, 2023. If you didn’t get your reports and receipts in by Wednesday, February 8, you may not qualify for another grant. Deadline to file online is 4pm–not midnight, not 5pm.
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It’s hard to put the toothpaste back in the tube, right?
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Part Two: What the Third-Party Community Access Providers Say Following up on Part One, we recap the interrogatory of interest: PURA-43 Describe the fundamental purposes of community access of the CAP, including but not limited to, the following: It’s like a writing prompt or essay question, right? The difference between how the cable companies answer […]
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And if so, what are they? In spring of 2022, Senate Bill 278 to bolster funding for the official Community Access Providers (CAPs) was progressing to the Senate floor, but suffered a Strike-All Amendment on the last day of the legislative session. Instead of establishing per subscriber fees from subscribers to any service offered by […]
Read more "Do the Fundamental Things Apply?"Why are the PEG channels on Frontier going dark?
In 2007, legislation was passed to catch up with how the DPUC (the previous incarnation of PURA) was treating AT&T’s U-Verse as a utility separate from community antenna television (CATV = cable TV). The AT&T representative proudly declared that a T1 line would be provided to PEG access channels. Despite the discriminatory treatment of PEG […]
Read more "Why are the PEG channels on Frontier going dark?"Skye Cable XIII wants you all to know…
… that they don’t appreciate their check from Frontier Communications for community access support in 2022, and this is exactly why: UPDATE 8/16/2022: The Skye Cable XIII president called this morning to report that an additional check arrived from Frontier Communications, truing-up the amount per subscriber from January 2022. Lesson: If you ask, you maybe […]
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Read more "Protected: What happened to the idea of including internet subscribers?"Connecticut PEG people at the national ACM conference
Jennifer Evans (West Hartford), Susan Huizenga (Wallingford), Sandra Austin Goldstein, and Scott & Jackie Allo (Newington) all attended the nation conference of the Alliance for Community Media in Chicago at the end of June 2022. One evening was devoted to the Hometown Media Awards. Team Hercules of Wallingford Public Access TV & Community Center received an award […]
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It has been a long time since we’ve been free to analyze stuff posted in the PURA database for active dockets. This is what we looked at in Docket 21-10-13 – Allocation of Public Educational and Governmental Programming and Education Technology Investment Account pursuant to CGS Sec. 16-331cc. There is $3.5 million available for grants […]
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