community access on cable tv

[flashback]

is there still any cable systems that still has community programs?access to a television studio and equipment for a fee that can be used to make any show they want .

we had that kind of channel on american cable(which became brighthouse) here till 1996 or so .when i called the cable company to complain i was informed that the mayors office wanted taken away.no reason was given .i suspected the mayor and his people didn`t like the people having the option to say pretty much what they want on a tv program.

i didn`t have comcast access so i didn`t know what happened to community access on comcast here then or how long it lasted.

is community access on any cable systems anymore?i always thought it was a pretty cool thing.

does any of you know of any community access channels being removed like the one on american cable?

 

[KML0224]

I think the so-called P.E.G. channels (public/educational/government) have to remain by law.

 

[flashback]

we have the goverment channels but not the communitty access channels i described.not one where anyone can put on their own programs.

 

[RadioDaze]

On the Durham, North Carolina cable system (TWC), channel 8 was the longtime community access channel, mixing city council meetings with local access fare, but this changed a year or two ago when a separate local access channel, 18, was set up and channel 8 became exclusively operated by the City of Durham. The old Durham City Schools and their successor, Durham Public Schools have long held channel 4 on cable (in the analog days very succeptible to interference with a local VHF 4 transmitter, WUNC-TV). Before channel 4, they had channel 28 for part of the day. Channel 4 shows county commissioner and school board meetings.

 

[Dtv]

We have PEG all on one channel, comcast will no longer be running it after this year, the station will be ntsc color bars 24-7-365. Ir was a fun station in the 90's, local programes, local events, town meeting, school meeting, hs sports, then when comcast came, town meetings 24-7 with zero editing, very low sound, and the station has shown a new meeting in a month. Our town has the option of useing signet to run the station for a fee after december 1

 

[FreddyE1977]

I dropped Comcast in favor of a dish several years ago, but they were still running a public access channel at
that time and I think their charter with the local government required them to maintain it.

 

[Sammi Brie]

On Cox Phoenix, there were three PEG channels at one point: 11, 98, and 99. 98 was used by Chandler public safety and was dropped a few years ago. 99 is educational access, shared by three school districts. 11 is government access. A few years ago on an analog set I was flipping through the channels and saw the wrong city's government access channel (Phoenix, not Chandler). It stayed like that for 30 to 40 minutes before reverting without warning.

 

[Mediafrog+]

Comcast/Xfinity Houston has four access channels. Inside the city proper, we have:

Channel 16--Houston Municipal Channel, run by the city
Channel 17--Houston Media Source, for public access programming
Channel 18--Houston School District
Channel 19--Houston Community College

Outside the city limits, Channel 16 is used by various different school or municipal entities, depending on where you are located. The other channels have Jewelry Television, The Liquidation Channel, and an infomercial service. There might be other hyper-local services on some of the channels.

Comcast also has two lease channels. One is usually infomercials, the other has occasional religious programming from one of the local LPTV's.

 

[JeeperOne]

All the Public Access channels in Denver still exist, but that depends on whether you're in Denver County or in one of the surrounding suburban counties (Different listings) & whether they're actually on the air 24/7 (The ones in Englewood, CO Arapahoe County are not)

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