By Linda Haugsted
Friday, August 8, 2008
Multichannel News
http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6585787.html

Saline, Mich. Officials Say Cabler Isn't Living Up to Funding Obligations

The city of Saline, Mich., is taking Comcast to court, alleging the operator has failed to fund public, educational and government programming support fees the city is entitled to under Michigan's state franchising law.

The suit asserts the operator balked at the fee established by the city: 2% of its gross revenues. The new state law, the Uniform Video Services Local Franchising Act, gives communities authority to establish that fee, the city alleges.

The Detroit Public Television June 2008 Membership Drive is coming May 30 through June 11. There are still many openings for shifts answering pledge phones on TV.

Let's give DPTV one more reason to add Democracy Now to their daily schedule by showing our commitment to public television.

Afternoon and evening shifts are available. Sign up using their "Sign up today!" link at: http://www.dptv.org/support/volunteer.shtml#

Volunteers must be 16 years or older.

Note: All of the "on air" fundraisers will be held at the studios in New Center (Detroit). Directions to the New Center Studios can be found at: http://www.dptv.org/aboutus/findus.shtml

Many of you have already signed a petition to get Democracy Now! (http://www.democracynow.org/) on both 88.1 FM WYCE radio and WGVU TV Channel 35 in Grand Rapids. This media alert is the last push in this campaign to get the award winning show with Amy Goodman on the local airwaves in our community.

Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Detroit Public TV - My DPTV ENews

Parade Magazine is asking its readers to voice support for or against federal funding of public broadcasting. If you believe that the federal government should continue its support for PBS, NPR, and local Public Television and Radio stations, please go to http://pbsmail.org/ct/813J19s1DYX0/survey and vote YES!

(Please note that the above link will automatically redirect you to http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2008/edition_05-04-2008/Intelligence_Report, where the actual polling takes place.)

From all of us at WTVS Detroit Public TV, thank you.

Award-winning journalist Amy Goodman, host of the daily, grassroots, global, radio/TV news hour Democracy Now!, is on a national speaking tour to mark DN!'s 12th anniversary and launch her third book with journalist David Goodman, Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times.

She will be speaking at the following Michigan locations this weekend:

Friday, May 9, 2008 at 7pm
Amy Goodman speaks in Detroit!

Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 9am
Amy Goodman speaks in Lansing!

Saturday, May 10, 2008 at noon
Amy Goodman speaks in Ann Arbor!

Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 7pm
Amy Goodman speaks in Grand Rapids!

Please join us!

Tell others about this event, too!
Cut and paste information about this event into an email and circulate it to people you know, local groups and any appropriate listservs.

Ask local newspapers and community groups to list this event in their publications, email newsletters, and/or websites. Please email outreach(at)democracynow(dot)org and tell them if any groups you have contacted are doing so. If information about the event is printed, please send it to:
Democracy Now!
PO Box 693
New York, NY 10013.

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