The Alliance for Community Media urged the FCC...
The Alliance for Community Media urged the FCC to act on ACM’s 2009 petition to declare AT&T’s offering of public, educational and government access (PEG) channels on U-Verse inadequate. ACM also urged the commission not to act on AT&T’s proposed…
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buy of DirecTV until it acts on the petition, the alliance said in an ex parte filing posted Tuesday in docket 09-13 (http://bit.ly/1yelQB0). The group has said it would revisit arguments in support of the petition, which has been pending for five years (CD June 6 p6). PEG channels “should receive equal treatment, in terms of subscriber accessibility and functionality, to local broadcast and other commercial channels on a cable system,” it said. ACM doesn’t seek to pre-empt any state law or local franchise, it said in an attached filing (http://bit.ly/1ni9Zur). The franchises under which each of the individual local government and PEG center petitioners operate, be they state or local franchises, “require the operator to set aside ‘capacity’ for PEG use and to provide PEG ‘channels,'” it said.