CAT TV: To get long overdue makeover money

 

COLUMBIA, 5/17/10  (Beat Byte) -- Stephens College and Columbia Access Television (CAT) will receive over $130,000 for long overdue upgrades to the Stephens College CAT TV studios, now that cable television scofflaw Mediacom and St. Louis-based Charter Communications have settled a lawsuit with the City of Columbia for "among other things, failure to provide studio and equipment support for public access as part of cable television franchise obligations with the City." 

 

The 2009 settlement -- $212,636 for underpayment of franchise fees from the two firms -- followed a 2007 lawsuit that alleged neither firm provided "sufficient support for public access television," part of an exclusive contract that granted cable television monopolies in sections of Columbia. 

 

B121-10  Appropriating funds received as part of the settlement agreement with Mediacom and Charter Communications to fund public access television improvements at Stephens College

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