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 | SF Public Access Producers Picket Soon-To-Be Closed Facility
On December 1st at 4:00pm, community producers will gather at the former Access San Francisco facility at 1720 Market Street in San Francisco (now called SF Commons and slated for closure on December 20th) to ask San Francisco city government to protect access to the public channels. |
| Community Access Preservation Act
Action Alert: Wisconsin Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin has introduced the Community Access Preservation Act to the House of Representatives to preserve and protect public access television channels nationwide. |
 | Media Moguls Vow To Fight New Argentine Media Law
Interpress Service (IPS)
While civil society groups celebrated Argentina's new broadcasting law, media giants threatened to fight it with a wave of lawsuits, and opposition lawmakers pledged to revise it after the next Congress convenes in December. |
| Media Crisis and Grassroots Response
by Jordan Flaherty, Left Turn Magazine
The media landscape in the US is changing rapidly. As all forms of journalists face massive layoffs, analysts fear that journalism’s role as a counterforce against the powerful is in jeopardy. For progressives and radicals working in media, it’s time to not only question what format news will come in, but also how to approach our work so it is both accountable and sustainable. |
| DOJ Opens Review of Telecom Industry
by Amol Sharma, Wall Street Journal Online
The Department of Justice has begun an initial review to determine
whether large U.S. telecom companies such as AT&T Inc. and Verizon
Communications Inc. have abused the market power they've amassed in
recent years, according to people familiar with the matter.
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| U-Verse Legal Challenge at the FCC
The Alliance for Community Media, and the cities of Lansing and Dearborn in Michigan have filed suit against AT&T's U-verse system for the placement of many local public access stations on one channel with a pull-down menu. This effectively prevents channel surfers from ever encountering their local PEG. Comments are due at the FCC by March 5th. Anyone can file one! Proceeding# 09-13. |
| BAVC Gets City of San Francisco Contract to Run Public Access Facility
The Bay Area Video Coalition was awarded the contract to run the City of San Francisco's public access facility. While forward-thinking in some ways, the proposal also redefines public access as a little less public than it used to be. Read Media Alliance's comments on the award. |
| Raising Our Voices Rises Again!
Media Alliance's Raising Our Voices Program is back for a third cycle. Entitled Raising Our Voices III: Immigrant Women Speak Out!, the program offers free media training workshops focused on immigration, poverty, gender, labor and social justice in the San Antonio neighborhood of Oakland. |
| Tiny San Jose Low-Power Station Battles KTVU
http://www.boycottktvu.com
KAXT-CA is a Low Power Television station on Channel 22 and has been broadcasting in San Jose since 1990. KAXT filed an application with the FCC in 2007 for a channel, and was waiting for FCC clearance at the time of the DTV transition. The Bay Area is at risk of losing several new television channels with Vietnamese, South Asian, Spanish, Filipino, African-American and other local programming due to a sudden Cox Communications grab for the channel.
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| Tribune Files for Bankruptcy
The Tribune Company filed for bankruptcy protection in a federal court in Delaware on Monday, as the owner of The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Cubs baseball team struggled to cope with rising debt and falling ad revenue. |
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