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Remote Community Production
April 15, 2020We want to help you continue creating video content while the Town Meeting TV studios are closed due to COVID-19. Contact us with questions, ideas, or comments: morourke@cctv.org
Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger Offers City Resources in response to Covid 19 Pandemic
March 31, 2020Burlington Resource & Recovery Center: On Monday, March 23, we launched the Burlington COVID-19 Resource & Recovery Center, or RRC. The RRC's function is to provide relief to the economic disruption of COVID-19. If you are a renter worried about housing security, a business owner seeking access to federal assistance, a person experiencing homelessness who needs shelter, a Burlingtonian looking for information about City taxes and fees during this time or the federal aid that is coming, or someone looking to volunteer safely, you can get a 1-1 (remote) consult at the RRC and find many resources on the website. For more information, call (802) 755-7239 or go to the City website: https://www.burlingtonvt.gov/Resources
Moving to Virtual Democracy - Watch Now
March 23, 2020Town Meeting TV is helping to keep the wheels of democracy turning as we continue to record, stream and archive remote public meetings.
Alliance for Community Media says FCC Cable Vote Will Harm Local Media
August 02, 2019The proposed rules would allow cable companies to assign market values to these benefits and then charge the amount back to local communities in most cases. Benefits include items like free cable subscriptions to schools, discounts for the elderly, and fiber connectivity to local government buildings like police departments, fire stations, and libraries.
More Senators Issue Letters of Opposition on Proposed FCC Rules of Cable Franchising
July 30, 2019The FCC meeting will be streamed live on Thursday, August 1st, starting at 10:30 am ET. You can watch the stream at www.fcc.gov/live. We will be coordinating a roundtable discussion about the rule and other efforts to overturn local authority and silence community voices at DCTV in Washington on Thursday from 3:00 - 5:00 pm ET. We will be recording the discussion for your use and will update you as soon as the URL is available for a livestream.
FCC Updates on Draft Rules for Cable Access TV
July 22, 2019Perhaps the biggest loss for communities in the Order is the preemption of local governments from being able to tax telecommunications services provided by the cable industry even though the right of way is being used. This specifically seeks to defund local communities who have the ability under their state law to tax all telecom providers equally and now creates a disparity between cable and non-cable providers.
Channel 17 Goes Live in HD on Burlington Telecom's Channel 217
April 30, 2019Turn your BT remote to Channel 17's new HD Channel 217 for the latest Burlington coverage.
Leahy, Sanders And Welch Back Legislation To Restore Net Neutrality
March 08, 2019In a joint statement, Leahy, Sanders, and Welch said: “A free and open internet is essential to our economy, a free flow of ideas, creativity, and participatory democracy. The Administration’s decision to repeal net neutrality is bad for our democracy and bad for consumers and entrepreneurs, especially in rural areas, and a gift to the big telecom companies who can now pick and choose who has access to the internet and at what speed. Our legislation will reverse this anti-consumer move and ensure that the internet remains open and accessible to all Americans.”
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CCTV Receives NEH Grant to Support Community Archives
CCTV Center for Media & Democracy is pleased to announce receipt of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant alongside 32 peer archival institutions across the country. This $49,927 grant award will support efforts to preserve and expand access to audio/visual community history materials in the CCTV Archives. Read more about this opportunity here!
