Comments for Save LA Public Access http://savepublicaccess.wordpress.com Los Angeles Public Access Coalition Sun, 01 Mar 2009 11:24:06 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Message from David Hernandez President, by Mike http://savepublicaccess.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/message-from-david-hernandez-president/#comment-27 Mike Sun, 01 Mar 2009 11:24:06 +0000 http://savepublicaccess.wordpress.com/?p=59#comment-27 Just passing by.Btw, your website have great content! _________________________________ Making Money <a href="http://tinyurl.com/rich-quickly/1080787" rel="nofollow">$150 An Hour</a> Just passing by.Btw, your website have great content!

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]]> Comment on Attorney Generals Response by Acces producer http://savepublicaccess.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/attorney-generals-response/#comment-24 Acces producer Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:11:49 +0000 http://savepublicaccess.wordpress.com/?p=57#comment-24 I completely agree with your fight. I think it's must be kept clear there are two main issues. One: production facilities and Two: broadcasting channels. I think cable rate payers are still paying for BOTH and getting neither. So a rate REFUND is necessary Or we must have cable public access. I have already contacted the current PEG chanel bureau in Los Angeles to get my shows broadcasted there. They have imposed an anonymous review of all shows submitted. If your show passes their review (the criteria to pass is not public posted), it will be aired on LA35 at their disgression for time and date. Pretty bad. All shows submited will be Internet aired in the LA35 website, but that offer is just like free non-red-tape Internet sites like You TUbe. All shows must be submitted on DVD formal and NO show DVD will be returned. They are destroyed after airing. This is hardly open, transparent, and free use of the public's airwaves by access producers! I completely agree with your fight. I think it’s must be kept clear there are two main issues.
One: production facilities and
Two: broadcasting channels.
I think cable rate payers are still paying for BOTH and getting neither. So a rate REFUND is necessary Or we must have cable public access.

I have already contacted the current PEG chanel bureau in Los Angeles to get my shows broadcasted there. They have imposed an anonymous review of all shows submitted. If your show passes their review (the criteria to pass is not public posted), it will be aired on LA35 at their disgression for time and date. Pretty bad. All shows submited will be Internet aired in the LA35 website, but that offer is just like free non-red-tape Internet sites like You TUbe. All shows must be submitted on DVD formal and NO show DVD will be returned. They are destroyed after airing.
This is hardly open, transparent, and free use of the public’s airwaves by access producers!

]]> Comment on Attorney General 2nd request! by Roger Martin http://savepublicaccess.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/attorney-general-2nd-request/#comment-21 Roger Martin Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:26:34 +0000 http://savepublicaccess.wordpress.com/?p=48#comment-21 Our sources (ITA) say the LA36 will now include Public Access.... go to the ITA website for verification. Our newsletter is at: htt;://www.publicaccess.org/news.html Roger Martin Public Access Awareness Our sources (ITA) say the LA36 will now include
Public Access…. go to the ITA website for verification.

Our newsletter is at:

htt;://www.publicaccess.org/news.html

Roger Martin
Public Access Awareness

]]> Comment on Attorney General 2nd request! by ron cooper http://savepublicaccess.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/attorney-general-2nd-request/#comment-20 ron cooper Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:32:17 +0000 http://savepublicaccess.wordpress.com/?p=48#comment-20 The Los Angels City Council's actions violate their citizen's right to speak in following extraordinary ways. Duplicity -- The LA City Council blames the State Legislature for DIVCA. Fabian Nunez and Lloyd Levine are both Los Angeles political leaders, well known to all of Southern CA. As leaders of the 2006 State Assembly, Nunez and Levine took the AT&T language, millions of dollars in campaign money, and co-authored DIVCA insisting DIVCA would not be discriminatory to LA/CA. people of color and lower income households. In fact, DIVCA has eliminated Spanish as a second language (SAP), hundreds of hours of other-than-English programming, permitted AT&T and others to "cherry-pick" lucrative neighborhoods for cable service, and closed down production studios and channels serving the many Angelenos without local access to electronic media, facilities and training. Cable rates have not decreased and infrastructure promised by AT&T is yet to be constructed. Deceit -- The LA City Council made no serious attempt to (1) inform LA residents of the impending Time Warner shutdown and made no attempt to publicly investigate alternative scenarios, (2) The Council continues to use the financial crunch as the rationale for closure even though the City continues to collect $25 million per year in cable television franchise fees and millions more in Utility taxes exclusively from cable ser vices, (3) The City will soon collect another $5 million (an additional 1% permitted under DIVCA) exclusively for PEG related expenses. (4) With Public Access eliminated (the four channels are designated "Educational and Government Access only"), these funds will go exclusively to Government Access programming providing additional and well funded face time for local elected officials and complete editorial control, effectively silencing their local rivals, critics and pundits. Anti-democratic -- The U.S. Constitution protects the public's right to speak from the chilling effect and outright censorship of government officials. The orchestrated way in which DIVCA was rushed through the CA legislature by Nunez and Levine in return for millions in campaign donations from AT&T, the negative impact on the voices of LA residents, the loss of public resources without serious efforts by local government to "serve and protect" its citizens, the financial gain to be achieved for LA government, the direction of public funds to serve at the exclusive pleasure of elected officials, and the cynical manipulation and deceit of the public by local leadership stands out as a striking example of censorship by government and violation of Los Angeles citizen's Constitutional rights. This is abuse of power on a massive scale -- the Big Lie, Los Angeles Water and Power revisited, and an insult to all who believe in democratic ideals, due process, transparency of government, and free speech. Ron Cooper, Executive Director Access Sacramento 4623 T Street Sacramento, CA. 95819 (916) 456-8600 #112 www.AccessSacramento.org The Los Angels City Council’s actions violate their citizen’s right to speak in following extraordinary ways.

Duplicity — The LA City Council blames the State Legislature for DIVCA. Fabian Nunez and Lloyd Levine are both Los Angeles political leaders, well known to all of Southern CA. As leaders of the 2006 State Assembly, Nunez and Levine took the AT&T language, millions of dollars in campaign money, and co-authored DIVCA insisting DIVCA would not be discriminatory to LA/CA. people of color and lower income households. In fact, DIVCA has eliminated Spanish as a second language (SAP), hundreds of hours of other-than-English programming, permitted AT&T and others to “cherry-pick” lucrative neighborhoods for cable service, and closed down production studios and channels serving the many Angelenos without local access to electronic media, facilities and training. Cable rates have not decreased and infrastructure promised by AT&T is yet to be constructed.

Deceit — The LA City Council made no serious attempt to (1) inform LA residents of the impending Time Warner shutdown and made no attempt to publicly investigate alternative scenarios, (2) The Council continues to use the financial crunch as the rationale for closure even though the City continues to collect $25 million per year in cable television franchise fees and millions more in Utility taxes exclusively from cable ser vices, (3) The City will soon collect another $5 million (an additional 1% permitted under DIVCA) exclusively for PEG related expenses. (4) With Public Access eliminated (the four channels are designated “Educational and Government Access only”), these funds will go exclusively to Government Access programming providing additional and well funded face time for local elected officials and complete editorial control, effectively silencing their local rivals, critics and pundits.

Anti-democratic — The U.S. Constitution protects the public’s right to speak from the chilling effect and outright censorship of government officials. The orchestrated way in which DIVCA was rushed through the CA legislature by Nunez and Levine in return for millions in campaign donations from AT&T, the negative impact on the voices of LA residents, the loss of public resources without serious efforts by local government to “serve and protect” its citizens, the financial gain to be achieved for LA government, the direction of public funds to serve at the exclusive pleasure of elected officials, and the cynical manipulation and deceit of the public by local leadership stands out as a striking example of censorship by government and violation of Los Angeles citizen’s Constitutional rights.

This is abuse of power on a massive scale — the Big Lie, Los Angeles Water and Power revisited, and an insult to all who believe in democratic ideals, due process, transparency of government, and free speech.

Ron Cooper, Executive Director
Access Sacramento
4623 T Street
Sacramento, CA. 95819
(916) 456-8600 #112
http://www.AccessSacramento.org

]]> Comment on Future of Public Access by annie http://savepublicaccess.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/future-of-public-access/#comment-16 annie Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:01:18 +0000 http://savepublicaccess.wordpress.com/?p=3#comment-16 I am a publc access producer on Long Island, New York. I believe that the idea of paying the franchaise fee is against the original contract made between the cable companies and the public. The agreement was that the cable companies provided the citizens in the area an "electric soapbox" for the specific purpose of diseminating information amongst the population, in exchange for the company laying its wires through the lands. There is case law on this matter in the courts in New York. Best of luck, Annie McKenna Faraldo I am a publc access producer on Long Island, New York. I believe that the idea of paying the franchaise fee is against the original contract made between the cable companies and the public. The agreement was that the cable companies provided the citizens in the area an “electric soapbox” for the specific purpose of diseminating information amongst the population, in exchange for the company laying its wires through the lands. There is case law on this matter in the courts in New York.

Best of luck,

Annie McKenna Faraldo

]]> Comment on by AG http://savepublicaccess.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/32/#comment-14 AG Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:45:02 +0000 http://savepublicaccess.wordpress.com/?p=32#comment-14 Citizen public access is community and neighborhood TV. The federal govt. mandated this public TV, rightfully years ago. This issue is being ’sand-bagged’ by the LA govt officials who are trying to STOP citizen TV. I have been connected to public access since 80’s when things cost producer’s real money to producer a show. When things got better in the last decade, the quality of these shows got better with the digital medium and compouter editting. This issue should be wider publicized because it is just another restriction of community free speech, much like the new gestapo govt push to have the old ridiculously named ‘fairness doctrine’ re-insitutued on public radio. Let the people be heard and let public comment on these issues happen at the city’s committe hearings. **Why isn’t there any special TV notices on Channel 36 about these city’s and state’s citizen TV channel closure, the city’s cable TV channel or elsewhere in public newspapers and blogs? Try googling it and you get very little notice. This looks like a power play by the govt to remove citizen TV shows from the public airwaves. Activism is the only way to fight this draconian gestapo tactics. Get innformed and get active...they take this away..they will take more! Citizen public access is community and neighborhood TV. The federal govt. mandated this public TV, rightfully years ago. This issue is being ’sand-bagged’ by the LA govt officials who are trying to STOP citizen TV. I have been connected to public access since 80’s when things cost producer’s real money to producer a show. When things got better in the last decade, the quality of these shows got better with the digital medium and compouter editting.
This issue should be wider publicized because it is just another restriction of community free speech, much like the new gestapo govt push to have the old ridiculously named ‘fairness doctrine’ re-insitutued on public radio. Let the people be heard and let public comment on these issues happen at the city’s committe hearings.
**Why isn’t there any special TV notices on Channel 36 about these city’s and state’s citizen TV channel closure, the city’s cable TV channel or elsewhere in public newspapers and blogs?
Try googling it and you get very little notice. This looks like a power play by the govt to remove citizen TV shows from the public airwaves. Activism is the only way to fight this draconian gestapo tactics. Get innformed and get active…they take this away..they will take more!

]]> Comment on by Marie Westphalen http://savepublicaccess.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/11/#comment-13 Marie Westphalen Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:07:16 +0000 http://savepublicaccess.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/11/#comment-13 This is unheard of! Public Access TV is so worthwhile for so many reasons. Please listen to the masses. This is unheard of! Public Access TV is so worthwhile for so many reasons.
Please listen to the masses.

]]> Comment on Future of Public Access by AG http://savepublicaccess.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/future-of-public-access/#comment-12 AG Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:18:54 +0000 http://savepublicaccess.wordpress.com/?p=3#comment-12 HELP ! SAVE THE PUBLIC CABLE CHANNELS IN THE CITY OF L.A. LAST CHANCE: Public Hearing Dec. 3rd 10 a.m L A COUNCIL TO VOTE ON DEMISE OF PUBLIC ACCESS CHANNELS & STUDIOS PUBLIC HEARING TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3rd 10 a.m. City Hall, 200 No. Spring st. LOCATION: CITY HALL CHAMBERS (3rd Floor) PLEASE ATTEND: TELL THE COUNCIL COMMITTEE TO PROTECT OUR PUBLIC ASSETS THE PUBLIC'S CABLE CHANNELS. HELP !
SAVE THE PUBLIC CABLE CHANNELS IN THE CITY OF L.A.

LAST CHANCE: Public Hearing Dec. 3rd 10 a.m
L A COUNCIL TO VOTE ON DEMISE OF PUBLIC ACCESS CHANNELS & STUDIOS
PUBLIC HEARING TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3rd 10 a.m.
City Hall, 200 No. Spring st.
LOCATION: CITY HALL CHAMBERS (3rd Floor)
PLEASE ATTEND: TELL THE COUNCIL COMMITTEE TO PROTECT OUR PUBLIC ASSETS THE PUBLIC’S CABLE CHANNELS.

]]> Comment on Future of Public Access by AG http://savepublicaccess.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/future-of-public-access/#comment-11 AG Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:24:28 +0000 http://savepublicaccess.wordpress.com/?p=3#comment-11 Citizen public access is community and neighborhood TV. The federal govt. mandated this public TV, rightfully years ago. This issue is being ’sand-bagged’ by the LA govt officials who are trying to STOP citizen TV. I have been connected to public access since 80’s when things cost producer’s real money to producer a show. When things got better in the last decade, the quality of these shows got better with the digital medium and compouter editting. This issue should be wider publicized because it is just another restriction of community free speech, much like the new gestapo govt push to have the old ridiculously named ‘fairness doctrine’ re-insitutued on public radio. Let the people be heard and let public comment on these issues happen at the city’s committe hearings. **Why isn’t there any special TV notices on Channel 36 about these city’s and state’s citizen TV channel closure, the city’s cable TV channel or elsewhere in public newspapers and blogs? Try googling it and you get very little notice. This looks like a power play by the govt to remove citizen TV shows from the public airwaves. Activism is the only way to fight this draconian gestapo tactics. Get innformed and get active…they take this away Citizen public access is community and neighborhood TV. The federal govt. mandated this public TV, rightfully years ago. This issue is being ’sand-bagged’ by the LA govt officials who are trying to STOP citizen TV. I have been connected to public access since 80’s when things cost producer’s real money to producer a show. When things got better in the last decade, the quality of these shows got better with the digital medium and compouter editting.
This issue should be wider publicized because it is just another restriction of community free speech, much like the new gestapo govt push to have the old ridiculously named ‘fairness doctrine’ re-insitutued on public radio. Let the people be heard and let public comment on these issues happen at the city’s committe hearings.
**Why isn’t there any special TV notices on Channel 36 about these city’s and state’s citizen TV channel closure, the city’s cable TV channel or elsewhere in public newspapers and blogs?
Try googling it and you get very little notice. This looks like a power play by the govt to remove citizen TV shows from the public airwaves. Activism is the only way to fight this draconian gestapo tactics. Get innformed and get active…they take this away

]]> Comment on by AG http://savepublicaccess.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/11/#comment-10 AG Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:23:16 +0000 http://savepublicaccess.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/11/#comment-10 Citizen public access is community and neighborhood TV. The federal govt. mandated this public TV, rightfully years ago. This issue is being ’sand-bagged’ by the LA govt officials who are trying to STOP citizen TV. I have been connected to public access since 80’s when things cost producer’s real money to producer a show. When things got better in the last decade, the quality of these shows got better with the digital medium and compouter editting. This issue should be wider publicized because it is just another restriction of community free speech, much like the new gestapo govt push to have the old ridiculously named ‘fairness doctrine’ re-insitutued on public radio. Let the people be heard and let public comment on these issues happen at the city’s committe hearings. **Why isn’t there any special TV notices on Channel 36 about these city’s and state’s citizen TV channel closure, the city’s cable TV channel or elsewhere in public newspapers and blogs? Try googling it and you get very little notice. This looks like a power play by the govt to remove citizen TV shows from the public airwaves. Activism is the only way to fight this draconian gestapo tactics. Get innformed and get active…they take this away Citizen public access is community and neighborhood TV. The federal govt. mandated this public TV, rightfully years ago. This issue is being ’sand-bagged’ by the LA govt officials who are trying to STOP citizen TV. I have been connected to public access since 80’s when things cost producer’s real money to producer a show. When things got better in the last decade, the quality of these shows got better with the digital medium and compouter editting.
This issue should be wider publicized because it is just another restriction of community free speech, much like the new gestapo govt push to have the old ridiculously named ‘fairness doctrine’ re-insitutued on public radio. Let the people be heard and let public comment on these issues happen at the city’s committe hearings.
**Why isn’t there any special TV notices on Channel 36 about these city’s and state’s citizen TV channel closure, the city’s cable TV channel or elsewhere in public newspapers and blogs?
Try googling it and you get very little notice. This looks like a power play by the govt to remove citizen TV shows from the public airwaves. Activism is the only way to fight this draconian gestapo tactics. Get innformed and get active…they take this away

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