Looming over everything from funding to programming is a recent decision by the FCC to allow cable companies to, in effect, significantly reduce funding for public, educational and governmental channels.
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South County cable advisory panel urges Healey to sue FCC over rules changes
The Five Town Cable Cable Advisory Committee voted to send a letter to state Attorney General Maura Healey urging her to take legal action to reverse a decision made last month by the FCC that local access channels say would devastate their funding.
LEONARD QUART: Martin Scorsese honored at Berkshire International Film Festival
As he always has done, Scorsese spoke about film with passion, encyclopedic knowledge and a belief in the greatness of the medium.
FCC is at it again: Proposed changes to benefit big cable, harm local access channels
Those who run the county’s three access channels say the new rules, which would severely impact their revenue streams, would likely put them out of business and deprive the public of valuable programming available nowhere else.
Bits & Bytes: Firefighters graduate from state academy; Molsky’s Mountain Drifters CD release; ‘Once on This Island;’ Election 2016 discussion at Williams; wellness and nutrition for seniors
Over the past four months, firefighters Morell, Dezieck, and Powell attended class in Lee two nights per week, learning about fire behavior, building construction, hazardous materials, and safely sizing up incidents.