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6 disabilities, “Disability Viewpoints,” that has been produced at CTV North Suburbs for 15 years. Losing five SD channels will severely impact how many of these locally produced programs will be cablecast in prime time. Difficult choices will have to be made as to whether, for example, “Disability Viewpoints” will be shown over the “Tale of Ten Cities.” It will also impact the availability of discrete educational channels for the three school districts as they are forced to all share one channel. With all of the PEG channels being moved into a digitally compressed technology, there is no question that Comcast cannot claim bandwidth scarcity. Rather, it is the company’s desire to reduce the availability of PEG programming in order to allow it to add more commercial programming services for which it can charge subscribers. But community media and CTV North Suburbs is more than programming. The Youth Media Program at CTV North Suburbs had 161 participants in 2013. These high school students produced 64 programs and contributed 350 volunteer hours to cover the “Night to Light MN” at the Guidant John Rose Oval tree lighting ceremony in Roseville, the Mounds View Community Theatre production of “Les Miserables,” the North Oaks Vintage Baseball Association baseball game, and the Roseville Area High School dance recital. The goal of the Youth Media Program is not to create professional videographers, although some may pursue that career, but to give them opportunities to use their academic studies in real life situations and to develop life skills such as team work. In a similar effort, two years ago CTV North Suburbs partnered with the Roseville Adult Learners Program at the Fairview Community Center to provide video production training for their students, all of whom are immigrants learning English as a second language. There were 12 students the first year, and this past year we had 34. As with the Youth Media Program, the goal is not to train professional videographers, but to support their English language training and to give them the tools to tell their own stories. The Youth Media Program and the classes for the Roseville Adult Learners Program are also important for helping those who sometimes perceive themselves as outsiders, whether in the high school culture or in the American culture at large, to find a way to fit in and learn to express themselves. The Staff Report and RFRP laid out a well‐reasoned needs assessment for the number and type of PEG channels. The only additional requirement in the RFRP regarding PEG was a move to simulcasting the current SD channels in HD. Considering digital compression technology, the NSCC believed that the Staff Report and RFRP would have essentially not required additional bandwidth but rather used less than the analog bandwidth used by the NSCC/NSAC a year or so ago. Comcast’s proposal would use less than 6 MHz of capacity, far less than the 48 MHz of capacity in the current franchise agreement, according to CBG Communications, Inc.