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4 <br /> <br />in capital funding for CTV North Suburbs, Comcast has agreed historically that the NSCC/NSAC <br />could use the currently operational and capital funding at its own discretion and the proposed <br />lack of voluntary operational funding threatens the organization’s continued existence. <br /> <br /> In fact, failure to provide sufficient voluntary operational funding throughout the <br />duration of the 10‐year franchise would likely mean that CTV North Suburbs would have to shut <br />its doors unless funding is provided by the member cities whereby essentially all of the <br />franchise fees are used for PEG operational funding. That would mean that Comcast essentially <br />pays no rent to the member cities for using the public rights‐of‐way, which seems unfair at <br />best. Not only would that affect public and community access video production and <br />programming, both for individual producers as well as community organizations, but it would <br />affect local government and educational access video production and programming services as <br />well. Those include covering city parades and festivals; school sports, concerts and <br />graduations; local election coverage; programs about city services and activities; and coverage <br />of special events, such as multiple hearings over the years on the TCAAP property and a series <br />of hearings held by the Mounds View School District to discuss school closings. Further, it is <br />because of the program playback infrastructure available at CTV North Suburbs community <br />media center that the organization can offer low cost channel programming and webstreaming <br />services to the cities and schools. That is all at risk with Comcast’s proposal and would suggest <br />that the local community needs and interest will not be met. <br /> <br /> Comcast asserts in part that its refusal to continue voluntarily paying operational <br />support, which the franchisee has been paying since 1991, is because the amount of the PEG <br />fee collected in the NSCC cities makes it uncompetitive with other multi‐channel video <br />programming providers, such as DirecTV and Dish Network. However, the amount of the PEG <br />fee has increased much more slowly than that of Comcast’s own fees for its cable services. In <br />addition, despite the company’s claim that subscribers are unwilling to pay the PEG fee, no <br />subscribers came forward at the April 17 public hearing on Comcast’s formal proposal to <br />complain about the PEG fee, nor has the NSCC received any written comments in conjunction <br />with the public hearing complaining about the PEG fee or its amount. The bottom line is that <br />the PEG grants – capital, operational and scholarship – cost Comcast nothing. They are a pass‐ <br />through on subscriber’s bills, and since 1991 staff has received no complaints about the PEG <br />fee, nor did staff receive any comments in conjunction with the public hearing. <br /> <br /> Channel Capacity <br /> <br />The member cities’ current franchise agreements specify that 12 channels of 6 MHz <br />each will be reserved for public, educational and government access use. Four of those <br />channels were “loaned” back to the company, although without any expectation that they <br />would be returned to community programming. Of the remaining eight channels, three are <br />used for public/community; three are used for educational programming by the three public
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