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Chicago Inks New Cable Agreement
Momentum Builds for Community Media Nationally

Alliance for Community Media

Andy Schwarz

May 15, 2012

"Alliance for Community Media (ACM) members in Chicago and New York recently entered into cable renewal agreements that will improve the quality and availability of critical local programming. Following historic public access television deals in New York City last year, the City of Chicago ratified a renewal agreement with cable operator RCN on April 24, 2012, dramatically expanding local community access to new media technologies..."

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A new cable deal for Chicago

Chicago Reader

Michael Miner

May 3, 2012

"The media coverage was all about the City Council's approval of the Infrastructure Trust, but another issue on the agenda of the council's April 24 session was Chicago’s cable contract with RCN. The terms of the contract the council ratified made that a good day for public access TV in our city.."

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New Public Access Agreement: Yes we CAN

Chicago Tribune

Eric Zorn

April 27, 2012

"Though public-access cable outlets around the country are struggling – a Benton Foundation study last year found more than 100 had closed nationwide since 2005 and more than half of those remaining had suffered funding cuts – The Chicago Access Network (CAN TV) now appears to be in good shape following the City Council’s resounding passage last week of a new franchise agreement with the service provider RCN."

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Public Access Television Empowers Chicago Residents

The Chicago Citizen

Thelma Sardin

April 25, 2012

"Long before the YouTube frenzy, Chicago Access Network Television (CAN TV) has been giving Chicagoans the power to broadcast important information out to their communities. Established in 1983, the
public access station has redefined the role of television in the lives of everyday citizens and even allows for live broadcasts."

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CAN TV Making TV and New Media More Accessible

Streetwise

Suzanne Haney, Editor-In-Chief

March 6, 2012

"While CAN TV has enhanced our non-profit organizational mission, we have in turn been able to take that benefit and use it for the health and welfare of the community of veterans here in Chicago."

- Carol Williams, USVAP Board Member

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LGBTs Pushing for RCN to Fund CAN TV

Windy City Times

Kate Sosin

November 9, 2011

" Supporters of Community Access Network Television (CAN TV) have launched an online petition aimed at securing funding support for the network, which they believe is threatened due a hiccup in an agreement with cable provider RCN..."

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It's Time to Learn to Think Like Steve Jobs

The New York Times

James Warren (Chicago News Cooperative)

September 3, 2011

"...New York City just announced a strong deal for its sister public access centers there, underscoring the value in which they're held.

But it's down to the wire on a new deal for CAN TV with RCN, one of Chicago's cable providers, that will set the stage for other franchise deals this decade. Cable revenue has soared despite the recession, but financing for CAN TV, whose budget is $2 million, has declined. The RCN renewal is expected before the City Council shortly and the public could be shortchanged."

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Make Fun of CAN TV At Your Peril;
CAN TV Has Been Chicago's Campaign HQ
The Beachwood Reporter
Steve Rhodes

Feb 10, 2011

If CAN TV really is the black Chicagoan's WTTW - as argued in a stupefying, offensive post on NBC Chicago's often stupefying and offensive Ward Room blog - maybe the question NBC Chicago ought to be asking itself is why so many people in this city feel unrepresented by the likes of . . . NBC Chicago...

Meanwhile, how well has NBC Chicago done as the venue of choice for political news for dumb white people?

All you have to do is consider the Ward Room's concept along with NBC Chicago's noted pattern of embarrassing errors as well as the lost ethical compass of its boss men to dismiss it as unworthy of carrying CAN TV's camera cables.

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CAN TV gives voice to every Chicagoan

ABC 7 News

Karen Meyer

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