I'm here!
Keep up the fight!
Steve


On 5/6/07, votewilder <votewilder@...> wrote:
>
> Everyone still here??? ;) Kimberly Wilder
>
> ~
>
> Support Public Access: Thursday, May 10th at 7pm in Town of Islip
> Annex Building, on 401 Main Street Islip.
>
> Zabby is a public access producer on Long Island. She is the leader
> of a group called "PEGLATM", which supports all the public service
> channels that cable companies are supposed to give the community in
> exchange for getting rights to the public airwaves. Zabby will speak
> at the Islip meeting, and tape it. Zabby has asked for other people
> to come speak in support of public access, and to ask that the Town
> of Islip require Verizon to provide studio space and training to the
> Islip community.
>
> Each town in Long Island is responsible for negotiating agreements
> with cable companies so that the community gets its fair share back
> from the company. Due to these agreements, Cablevision allows
> citizens to broadcast on a public access channel (20 or 21 in
> Suffolk County) and Cablevision provides studio time and training to
> citizens who need it to put on their shows.
>
> Evidently, Verizon has been arrogant in insisting it will not give
> any studio time or training to the Islip Community. Verizon is
> trying to demean the idea of public access by claiming it will not
> give support to the 74 public access producers. Yet, that ignores
> the fact that the whole community is served, when those 74 citizen
> activists volunteer to create unique, locally based shows that serve
> the community.
>
> Zabby is using her own public access time to discuss this issue, and
> to broadcast the public meeting. You can look for it on Channel 20
> in the Hauppague/Brookhaven system. Here are some times that
> information on this topic will be aired:
>
> Sunday, May 6th at 11:30 pm on Channel 20.
>
> Monday, May 7th at 3 pm on Channel 20 - Zabby explains the situation.
>
> Thursday, May 10th at 10 pm on Channel 20. (Watch after going to the
> meeting!)
>
>
>


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