In The Dark - City Council Meetings

Those of you that "used" to enjoy watching Washington City Council Meetings on Charter Cable, have probably noticed that the public, education and government channels (PEG for short) are now gone.

What happened to them? Seems the state of Missouri took over the regulation of cable franchises back in '07. What that meant was that local communities - like Washington, lost all leverage to demand cable hold up  the long standing bargain of making PEG programing available on the low channels. This was part of the original basic package of programing. 

PEG programing has been given the heave-ho to stratospheric 900 plus channel, closet. Apparently if your TV is more than 4 years old, you can't even get the PEG channels without a $5 per month additional fee and a converter box.

If memory serves, 900 channels used to be the domain of online shoppers. How coincidental that these shopping channels are showing up in the old real estate that was once reserved for PEG. I am sure the fact that cable companies get a piece of the pie from shopping channel sales, has nothing to do with the change of addresses.

Guy Midkiff

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