Resources

The Legislative Battle for Community Television in Wisconsin: Status as of February 18, 2010, Mary Cardona, Executive Director WAPC

WAPC - The Promise versus the Reality - Wisconsin's Video Competition Bill (passed 2007)

WAPC - Why the State Legislature Needs to Act this Session to Save Public, Education and Government (PEG) Access Television (1-14-10)

Summary of Effect of Act 42 on PEG by Mary Cardona, Executive Director-WAPC, January 14, 2008

Legislative Audit Bureau Study Shows Rates Have Shot Up Since Cable Competition Bill Passed

(Legislative Audit Bureau) Letter Report, Charges for Video Service, December 2009

WI: A case study in how corporations get the legislation they want - Nieman Watchdog

In Forced Franchising, the ICMA reports it will take years for wireline competition to develop in most communities and the obstacle to competition is not the local franchise process but issues related to construction.Local oversight should not be abandoned yet.

Community Television Policies and Practices Around the World

WAPC Position Paper (May 10, 2007)

Official position paper - WAPC, League of Wisconsin Municipalities (March 26, 2007)

AT&T's large utility boxes on public right-of-way in Wheaton, IL

U-Verse Boxes in Lakewood, OH Neighborhood Raise Concerns

Utility cabinet of the type AT&T would place on public rights-of-way

Video clips of Illinois legislators expressing concern over statewide franchising and acknowledging the importance of PEG./p>

Illinois Cable Bill as passed

Maps

Wisconsin Cable Service Areas Map

Wisconsin Telephone Exchange Boundaries Map (January 2009)

 

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