Regular channels on AT&T sought for community access
By: George Moore, March 7
HARTFORD - Public television officials and others argued before the state legislature Friday that AT&T should be required to offer community access and government television as regular channels in its new U-verse television service.
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AT&T's new "internet protocol" television service plans to offer all of the state's local community access stations under a drop-down menu accessed from a single channel, 99.
Community access officials said it would take as long as a minute to find a community access program and that the signal quality would not match that of commercial stations.
Officials discussed AT&T's new service as a part of hearing on a bill before the General Assembly's Committee on Energy and Technology.
The U-verse presentation of community access programming "looks like YouTube on TV," said Jennifer Evans, production manager for West Hartford Community Television. The law, she said, should "insist that public access be delivered at equivalent capacity."
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HARTFORD - Public television officials and others argued before the state legislature Friday that AT&T should be required to offer community access and government television as regular channels in its new U-verse television service.
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AT&T's new "internet protocol" television service plans to offer all of the state's local community access stations under a drop-down menu accessed from a single channel, 99.
Community access officials said it would take as long as a minute to find a community access program and that the signal quality would not match that of commercial stations.
Officials discussed AT&T's new service as a part of hearing on a bill before the General Assembly's Committee on Energy and Technology.
The U-verse presentation of community access programming "looks like YouTube on TV," said Jennifer Evans, production manager for West Hartford Community Television. The law, she said, should "insist that public access be delivered at equivalent capacity."
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