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Representing the Northeast

congratulatory card to hometown media winners

If you were not able to enter anything in this year’s Hometown Media Awards, you may not have taken the time to scroll thru the winners for 2018.  But if you did, the first thing you would notice is the preponderance of Northeast members listed.  And the next thing you might have noticed is how […]

Vermont Saga, continued

In a previous post, we summarized the year-long efforts of VAN to include better conditions for access media in Comcast’s license renewal.  In January, they were awarded many of their requests by the state’s Public Service Board.  PEG people everywhere rejoiced because this created a precedent that others could cite.  Indeed, MassAccess did just that […]

VAN of Vermont – April 2016 report

(adapted from Patrick Cody’s report to ACM-NE) Comcast Certificate of Public Good The biggest piece of work undertaken by the Vermont Access Network (VAN) in the past few months is the review of Comcast’s Certificate of Public Good (CPG) renewal.  In Vermont, a CPG is the franchise license that a utility or telecom company must […]