by Bill Pearis. When I moved to NYC in the late ’90s I was fairly obsessed with the weird world of cable access television, something we didn’t have in the small town where I grew up.

C.R. Douglas says that kind of cable access could never be duplicated today. “There is too much choice, and public access will never have the heyday it had in the ’90s because of that,” he said.

Local access stations are largely funded through a fee tacked on to subscribers by the cable providers and passed along to the station. Marblehead has two cable providers, Comcast and Verizon.

Cable TV operators will no longer be able to withhold sporting events and other popular programming that they own from satellite providers and other rivals. The Federal Communications Commission ...

MIAMI--Saying that county officials in Tampa violated the First Amendment by engaging in content-based censorship of protected speech, the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida today filed a ...

Holliston Fire Chief Michael Cassidy's cable access show has won a pair of Communicator Awards. The show, created during the COVID-19 pandemic, features Cassidy reading children's books.