Committee for Media Access

07/02/2014

National Hispanic Media Coalition's Alex Nogales says the group is committed to "ensuring that media providers fulfill their public interest obligations."

04/05/2014

CMA Member Jake Austen and his CAN TV aired program Chic-A-Go-Go profiled in South Side Weekly! On the Comcast franchise renewal:

Austen insists that for Comcast, the issue is “not a lack of money” (by revenue, Comcast is the largest communications company in the world). Productions costs are low, and Austen and other CAN TV producers are not paid. “They just don’t want to have this extra stipulation to provide us with funding,” he says.

n Sunday, March 16, Jake Austen promised his fans that he would be staging “Chic-A-Go-Go’s” “weirdest taping ever.” This was a big promise to make for the long-running Chicago Access Network Televi...

04/13/2012

CMA MEETS THE COMMISH
Read about our meeting with Commissioner Krimbel and Deputy Commisioner McVayne on our blog
http://ouraccess.blogspot.com/2012/04/cma-meets-commish.html

04/04/2012

THE FUTURE OF CAN TV GOES TO COMMITTEE!
This month the Chicago City Council has two important sessions that will help determine the future of the public's access to the airwaves. On April 16th the FInance Committee will meet and on April 18 a City Council meeting will be held, and two important issues are being discussed. The contract with cable provider RCN is going to committee, and the agreement the company and the City of Chicago have come up with is fair to CAN TV (longtime CMA members will recall our meetings with RCN in our group's earliest days). We applaud everyone who helped make this possible, and we encourage all Aldermen to make sure this goes through as planned, and to send a strong message to all other cable companies to keep the public in mind when drafting future contracts with Chicago. Also, there will be a proposal to end the Cable Commission, which concerns us slightly, mainly because the televised meetings and opportunities for public interaction were good for transparancy. We hope these concerns will be addressed.
The public is welcome to view and testify at these meetings. They both take place around 10am at City Hall, 121 N. Lasalle, 2nd Floor.

03/27/2012

CAN TV in STREETWISE!

03/14/2012

L.A. PUBLIC ACCESS SURVIVOR!
New post on our blog about one of the few veterans of the shuttered Los Angeles public access stations to find new venues for his work
http://ouraccess.blogspot.com/2012/03/la-cable-access-survivor-hits-road.html

03/09/2012

New post on our blog about Philly's triumphant cable access victory! http://ouraccess.blogspot.com/

12/02/2011

1,236 people- and counting- signed our petition calling for public hearings on the future of CAN TV. Thank you for your support!

11/08/2011

"We may have more outlets through the internet but the majority of the messages are controlled by a few. We need CAN TV to help maintain a diversity of viewpoints in the marketplace of ideas." Sign the petition: http://owly.com/7mP1j

11/08/2011

"CAN TV is the voice of Chicago's people. We cannot let that voice be smothered." Sign the petition: http://ow.ly/7mP1j

11/08/2011

Help protect CAN TV! Sign our petition calling on the City to hold open community hearings on enforcement of cable company obligations and the future of CAN TV.

City law requires that cable companies support public access in return for use of public rights-of-way. But CAN TV channels are at risk of being left...

03/16/2011