Death to Public Cable in California!?!

Save the Public Cable Channels: A Video Call to Action

Municipal Control of channels & content threatens public voice

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Full Disclosure
Network(R) is releasing an eight minute video Call to Action entitled
"Death of Public Cable Channels?" to alert the public and cable subscribers
nationwide to watch out for legislation enacted into law in California
known as DIVCA (Digital Infrastructure Video Competition Act of 2006) which
has authorized local governments to take over the operations and content
control of the 20 year old "public access" cable television system. The
legislation was sponsored by Southern California legislators Assembly
Speaker Fabian Nunez and Lloyd Levine.

In 1984 the bi-partisan Federal Communications Act mandated the public
access to cable channels to counter balance the dominance of
government-funded cable channels.

The video debate and struggle to save public cable channels is
currently taking place in Los Angeles, in the heart of the television media
world and promises to set the agenda for other states and major cities
where similar legislation is proposed and or enacted, according to David
Hernandez, Chamber of Commerce Executive.

The Full Disclosure Network(R) video features Los Angeles City
Councilman Bill Rosendahl, a former Carter White House official, who served
as a Western Regional cable executive and public affairs television show
host for Century Cable, Adelphia and Time Warner Cable companies in the
Southern California area for over 20 years.

David Hernandez questions the City plan for cable operators to pay a
franchise fee in lieu of providing public channels and studios. Councilman
Rosendahl confirms the City is poised let the public cable channels go dark
saying "my only suggestion is that somehow Channel 36, since we control
channel placement, should get involved in a Public Access block of time."

David Hernandez, long time civic activist has set up a blog at URL:
http://savepublicaccess.wordpress.com for the Los Angeles Public Access
users to promote discussion and debate on how to save the public cable
channel system. Hernandez discusses the City's failure to prevent the
public channels going dark after December 2008.

The Full Disclosure Network(R) is a public affairs cable television
show, billed as "the news behind the news" since 1992 and is featured on 47
cable systems throughout California and some eastern states. The programs
are produced by Leslie Dutton and T. J. Johnston and are a twice nominated,
Emmy Award winning program. http://www.fulldisclosure.net

CONTACT: Leslie Dutton of the Full Disclosure Network, +1-310-822-4449,
ldutton@fulldisclosure.net, WEBSITE: http://www.fulldisclosure.net
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And media continues to be consolidated. What are we going to do when the entire media is run by one or two people. The media is supposed to support a democracy by keeping the public informed about the issues that we face. What happens when the problem is the media? They have absolutely no incentive to report that, in fact they have a lot of incentive to not report it.