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What the cable companies don’t want you to know about radical television in Canada

There’s a big little story in Canada about radical possibilities for television that cable companies don’t want you to know. It’s a story worth close to a billion dollars -- money that should have been spent on creating community access television in every neighbourhood where cable companies sell cable. A few communities have claimed some of their share, but in most of Canada, the money goes into the pockets of the cable companies. What would happen if more communities demanded the community access funding that is their right under federal regulations?

  


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    [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/17274

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/17274