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MN House introduces HF1740 a bill appropriating money for community cable television programming

Blandin on Broadband

This bill is tangential to broadband but could relate directly to cable franchising, which does connect it to broadband. 1740, A bill for an act relating to arts and cultural heritage; appropriating money for community cable television programming. Minnesota House reports Nadeau, Norris and Carroll introduced: HF.

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Ely City Council supports HF1740 Equal access to broadband bill

Blandin on Broadband

The Ely Echo reports on the City Councils support of ( SF 2045 and HF 1740 ) As consumers choose new ways to access television programming, entities including Ely TV are feeling the consequences. Currently, those fees are only collected for cable television service. Grant Hauschild (D) and State Rep. Roger Skraba (R).

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Cable ISP Trade Group: FCC Data Highlights Broadband Expansion

Broadband Breakfast

NCTA – The Internet and Television Association, noted in a Nov. million nationwide between June 2023 and June 2024, while cable broadband has expanded to 1.1 Cable broadband added 700,000 rural locations.  billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program has been distributed. WASHINGTON, Dec.

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Protecting The Nation's Critical Communications Infrastructure From Theft and Vandalism

Broadband Breakfast

Energy Infrastructure: Incidents of vandalism and theft targeting electrical substations and distribution systems are also increasing. They steal encased copper cables and cut them into short lengths before burning them to remove the sheathing to reveal the raw copper inside. In April 2023, the North American Electric Reliability Corp.

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A Zombie Broadcasting Signal Treaty That Won’t Die But Should

US Telecom

Everyday consumers of internet content who may lose access to that content, creators who want and have authorized their works to be broadly distributed across the digital realm, libraries and archivists who collect and make available information and media, and countless others. And who will fall victim to this new scheme?

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FCC Defends Media Ownership Rules Before Eighth Circuit

Broadband Breakfast

” Despite the new chairman’s opposition to the rules on similar grounds to the broadcasters – Carr wrote in his dissent that the agency “continues to advance the fiction that broadcast radio and broadcast television stations exist in markets unto themselves” – FCC attorneys defended them.

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