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This push-poll is a key part of Comcast's plan to gather info against Public Access for their negotiations with the PSB for their renewal of the Certificate of Public Good. Comcast will do here in VT what they do elsewhere in the country: keep PEG fees, force all PEG stations out of business by withholding their funding, and claim they meet their obligations by having one statewide 'public' channel that they control. They'll go to the PSB and say, 'It'll be easier if you let us takeover, you won't have those pesky AMOs petitioning you all the time about how evil we are and clogging up your dockets.'
The PSB might even go for that argument, too.
If they call me, I'll happily point out that $4.71 is an easy price to pay on my $120/mo Comcast bill.
BTW, the only single higher Comcast fee is ESPN! I wonder why Comcast doesn't separate out their fee on my bill? ESPN is the biggest block to 'A La Carte' cable channels. Every subscriber subsidizes ESPN and of you had the option of not receiving it, that channel would lose all their income! This is called Socialism, ESPN can NOT function in a Free Market billing system.
Comcast Polling on Support for Public Access TV
The ongoing turf war battle between national telecom giant Comcast and Vermont's community access television stations is heating up again. This week, Comcast has been polling Vermonters around the state in an effort to gauge if they watch community-access programming, We've covered this issue i...
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