Alliance Files Reply Comments with FCC

On April 1, the Alliance for Community Media filed reply comments with the FCC in Proceeding 09-13, which concerns three petitions for declaratory ruling on how public, educational and governmental access programming is delivered on cable system.

The lead petition was filed by the Alliance and other organizations and seeks a declaratory order that AT&T’s method of delivering PEG channels over Its U-verse system is contrary to the federal law and FCC rules.  Another petition was filed by the City of Dearborn and other cities in Michigan and seeks a declaratory order on issues related to the way in which Comcast has digitized PEG channels and assigned them to channel locations that will require many subscribers to lease additional equipment in order to view such channels.

By the time of the April 1 deadline for reply comments filing, nearly 750 comments had been filed in this proceeding - available for review here.

The Alliance’s comments were filed in partnership with the following organizations:

Alliance for Communications Democracy
Sacramento (California) Metropolitan Cable Television Commission
Foothill-De Anza Community College District, California
Chicago Access Network Television
Illinois NATOA
Manhattan (New York) Neighborhood Network
Bronxnet (NY)
Brooklyn (NY) Community Access Television
City of Raleigh, North Carolina
ACM Western Region
ACM Central States Region
ACM Midwest Region
ACM Northwest Region
ACM Northeast Region
SEATOA