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So while the intent may have been to correct the omission which led to the Midwest Video decision, and make PEG mandatory, the result was a law which allowed the municipality to opt out of PEG requirements, and keep 100% of the cable television franchise fees for their general fund, while providing no PEG facilities or television channel ...
Part of the agreement was to set aside bandwidth and funding for TV channels dedicated to public, educational, and governmental access programming (PEG). The 1970s and 1980s were the heyday of access television, with hundreds of TV operations springing up in communities around the country.
Diversity - it is in the public interest to fund government facilities providing public, educational, and government access (PEG) channels that promote diversity in the community. Benefit - compensation for the public relations benefits the cable provider gains by having public, educational, and governmental channels on the cable.
The president's newly unveiled 2019 budget again proposes killing funding for the entities that award federal funding for public broadcasting and the arts.
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the FCC's requirements for local origination facilities. However, in 1979, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Midwest Video Corp. stating that the FCC's new requirements exceeded the agency's statutory powers as granted to them by Congress and as required by cable operators to provide Public-access television.
Funding for public television comes in roughly equal parts from government (at all levels) and the private sector. [ 11 ] Stations that receive CPB funds must meet certain requirements, [ 12 ] such as the maintenance or provision of open meetings, open financial records, a community advisory board, equal employment opportunity, and lists of ...
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Arlington Independent Media (AIM), formerly Arlington Community Television, is a nonprofit membership organization providing television production training workshops and professional production facilities, as well as the public, educational, and government access (PEG) cable TV channel on Comcast channel 69, and Verizon FIOS channel 38 in Arlington County, Virginia, United States.