Trying to save public access TV

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: Vanishing public access : Barbara Popovic, executive director of CAN-TV [Chicago Access Network Television], will testify before a U.S. House subcommittee Wednesday on the growing threats to public access programming on cable systems. : "Congress needs to recognize that a rapid erosion of public benefits is under way," she said. : She cited efforts by AT&T to make public, educational and government channels harder to find and more difficult to use through its U-Verse system. : "That defies congressional goals to preserve localism and diversity in cable franchising and ignores Illinois law requiring equivalent treatment of public channels," Popovic said. : Her claims were backed by an independent engineering study released this week by Columbia Telecommunications Corp. : (FEDER/st)

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