Ojai Valley News Blog on Public Access TV in CA
Ojai Valley News Blog reports on AB 2987, the Digital Infrastructure and Competition Act of 2006, and its potential impact on public access television in the state of California.
“Bill Rosendahl, former CEO of Southern California Adelphia, Ojai’s cable provider before Time Warner and present Los Angeles councilman, said that Time Warner would probably toss out public access to cut costs. ‘It’s generally viewed by cable providers as something they keep in order fulfill their franchise agreement,’ he said. ‘If they can get rid of it they will’ . . .
Things are not looking up for public access television statewide, according to Rosendahl. Some public access shows like Los Angeles’s oddball ‘Let’s Paint T.V’ have followed the shifting tides in media outlets and moved on to the internet utilizing You-Tube, and Myspace. Wilcock has also been airing his travelogue on his own web page.
But such one-of-a-kind broadcasts are easily lost in the sea of online posts. Locally focused creators would lose immediate access to their target audience and distance themselves from community-oriented programming.”
Read the post here.
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