Pasadena's public access channel. It took the mission seriously. Santa
Monica had a good one too.
There were classes, you could create programs and if you could scrape
enough folks together for a crew you could put on a show. But they
(the cable channel) started pressuring city council to have meetings
about cutting public access, on not replacing/upgrading equipment, or
memos on what you can and can't do...the usual.
Me, I just couldn't afford to continue to participate. I stopped.
The city next door (I name no names but the guilty know who they are)
did everything that they could to discourage requests for public
access time. It was only during working hours. 1/2 set-up time , no
equipment to be touched by outsiders and basically a talking chair
mode of participation was tolerated.
My concern is now with the potential walling off of the Internet by
the phone companies. Step one - they lock us out of public access.
Step two - the phone companies put the squeeze on Congress & FCC or
whoever to charge for faster/heavy bandwidth usage. Segregation for
the elite, reduced access (and videoblogging) for the rest of us.
Now this will bite them in the tukas in the long run cuz this is just
going to inspire some latent genius to invent something to bypass
phone company distribution and away we go into the new frontier.
Hang on, change is coming...
Gena
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