Talk:Public-access television

message: Haven't been able to find information about Franchise Fees.  If originally the stations were supposed to be funded by the cable companies, when did it become allowable for the cable companies to pass this cost on in this manner?
* I think this info will be hard to document, franchise fees are contracted currently on a city by city basis, each municipality would negotiate for percentages of revenue independently of others.  This is likely to become a state-side or even national franchise structure some time in the future.  Great starting resource is here, though I am not sure how Wikipedia community would accept a personal blog as a source:  BloggingBroadband  --Sean Effel 01:32, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Funding?

message: Yes, you are correct.  There are no longer any rules protecting public access television from being eliminated in communities.  Actually, it is already happening all across the country.  Channels are being bumped or cancelled without prior notice.  The best way to prevent this is to contact your local/state/national representatives and demand that public access continue to be a valued part of our communications and media system in this country.
There are bills currently in congress that will effectively eliminate access--public, educational and governmental--on a national level.  Please check out www.alliancecm.org for more information about public access rules, and the threats to this very important form of expression.4.152.90.222 21:31, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  FCC regulations regarding Public Access Television 

message: This page needs a disambiguation for the 1993 movie Public Access
why does the reader have to wade 4 paragraphs deep into this fun filled article just to figure out wtf "PEG" means?--Deglr6328 06:26, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation

message: I removed the reference to Mystery Science Theater 3000 starting on public access, as it started on KTMA TV in Minneapolis, a commercial UHF station, not a public access channel. PersonalityCult 00:55, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  MST3K 

message: Now, the picture of the spinning earth is nice with a heartwarming message 'n' all, but it doesn't seem to me to be encyclopedic in tone or NPOV. What exactly does the spinning Planet Earth have to do with community media? We could put the spinning globe image on the Coca-Cola or IBM or Hollywood pages and have a message about how people all round the world enjoy Coke or use IBM products to solve their problems or like to watch Hollywood movies. I think the message is misleading too... I don't think the output of the Manhattan Neighborhood Network belongs to, or is identified with, the citizens of Budapest, Kinshasa or Bali for instance. So, unfortunately for the nice image, I'm taking it out of this article for tone/POV issues. Bwithh 19:41, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: POV/tone picture issue

message: This entire section seems like an attack on the cable industry. I don't know enough about it to neutralize it (don't know what is going on on cable's side) but it just sounded very biased. Kyouteki 18:35, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Future of PEG access

message: In general a franchise should be available for viewing in one's Town/City Hall.  Unless the law's changed a cable company has to provide equipment, help, and production up to 5 minutes.  After that one has to pay for the services.  Yet, one's still allowed to turn in a show longer than 5 minutes of course, which is why usually most shows are 30 to 60 minutes long, but the 5 minute stipulation with complete support at cost free's all the cable company has to do beyond showing public access shows.  
Therefore, an ideal scenario's when the local gov and cable co work together to find a non profit media group to run the channel.  Finally,  public access tv's paid for by we the people.  Our tax dollars pay for it.  Secondly, when the cable companies first asked for right of way to put up their wires over peoples homes, they agreed with the understanding that since they were freely receiving that space, that they would freely grant tv channels to citizens.  Public access belongs to us.  Not the cable companies.  Yet, sometime the cable company ends up running it.  Sometimes, since they're already heavily taxed with their day to day work, public access suffers or gets no support.  
Nevertheless, the cable company's still obligied to fully support public access, but they don't have to grant anymore besides showing one's show or the free 5 minutes.  Lastly, I'd be interested in how many people have used the 5 free minutes opition.  One of our local cable companies doesn't mention it in their guidelines, but it is in the franchise.  When, I wrote them about using it once, they say they lost the letter and that was that.  The other cable company mentions it in the guidelines, but when they recently had problems showing my show on both dvd and vhs, I requested the 5 free minute option.  I didn't receive a reply back, but my next vhs tape played just fine.  Good luck.  DavidWJohnson  —Preceding comment was added at 00:32, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Cable Company and Franchise

message: The  fcc  does apply this usage.
Thank You,
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thread_title:  [[ peg_public_educational_governmental_television_program_programming ]] 

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thread_title:  Redirects 

message: I have edited a lot of these, and will continue to do so, but it is not good for a Wikipedia reader to be reading entries, or edited entries, that is written like a thinly masked complaint about the policies or staff decisions of a particular PA facility as if it applies universally to all PA facilities. PA facilities may be similar, but they are not uniform in their rules or operational procedures. A specific disagreement that an individual or group has with a public access facility should not be presented as a problem, issue or challenge to PATV as a whole. Nor should opinions be entered that may lead the reader to believe that event "A" triggered an situation that led to outcome "B", when this situation only occurred at a finite number of facilities and does not affect the procedures of another. Ocpatv (talk) 05:03, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Turning entries into complaints about Public Access Facilities 

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thread_title:  Copyright problem 

message: So as of right now this page features the  hatnote on top of the article as "public access" redirects here. I suggest we create a disambiguation page instead as "public access" is a broad term that applies to many things and imo isn't even most often used in that form to refer to "public-access television".
For instance a major use of the term refers to public access to various kinds of so far unpublic information - such as by data held by corporations or governments. (Various relevant pages exist for that.)
I didn't create a disambiguation page straight away mainly due to many articles pointing here (maybe due to a template?).
--Fixuture (talk) 10:58, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Instead of a hatnote there should be a disambiguation page 

message: I propose to merge Public, educational, and government access into Public-access television. The two articles contain redundant information, and the combined article can be trimmed as needed. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 00:04, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Klbrain (talk) 12:20, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

message: It would be informative if this article gave the number (or an estimate) of channels there are.Kdammers (talk) 13:55, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Numbers