The Alliance for Community Media cautioned the FCC...
The Alliance for Community Media cautioned the FCC against allowing AT&T’s U-verse pay-TV service and cable operators to move public, educational and governmental channels off the analog tier. The PEG channels “continue to suffer from discriminatory treatment in quality, accessibility…
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and functionality by AT&T U-verse,” ACM said in an ex parte filing in docket 09-13 (http://bit.ly/18NQVPg). ACM continued to urge the FCC to act on 2009 petitions concerning the placement of the channels during a meeting with staff from Commissioner Ajit Pai’s office. “Adding insult to injury, the lack of response by the FCC is emboldening other companies to discriminate against PEG channels.” Critical concerns of PEG station representatives include difficulty in finding channels and AT&T’s refusal to “provide the station with a subscriber feed for monitoring purposes,” ACM said.