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Re: Online
said by MyDogHsFleas  : They can go to the library and view it there. Or they can go to the meeting in person....Now we have an explosion of free outlets on the Internet, with podcasts, YouTube, social networking sites, etc. etc. and incredibly cheap entry costs for equipment and hookups. Why should I as a taxpayer have to subsidize these public access channels and the production facilities for TV programs that have audiences measured in the single and double digits? What about people that can't make to the library/meeting easily? Tough luck?
You 'subsidize' any number of things that are utilized by a minority amount of people in your community. That said, every survey I've ever seen on local access channels reports that they get a surprising amount of viewers, and are valued by the majority of respondents.
Your cable bill, incidentally, is full of subsidized channels which inflate your bill much more than local access, and if local access went away tomorrow, do you really think your bill would go down?
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