The City of Cambridge is renegotiating its license with the cable provider, Comcast. As part of the community needs assessment, the City is holding a public hearing on Wednesday, February 3 at 6 PM at Cambridge City Hall. CCTV receives most of its funding through this contract, and it is critical that Comcast representatives are aware of the public support of CCTV's work in the community.  Everyone is invited to attend the hearing - rather than asking everyone to speak, we are asking for signatures on this petition.

Have you ever watched CCTV's channels (9, 10 & 22), taken a class here or produced a video? Has your son or daughter participated in the Teen Media Program, or have you ever used a computer in computerCENTRAL? Please sign this petition to ensure that Cambridge Community Television receives the funding and services it needs to continue to respond to the media and technology needs of our community.

The City of Cambridge is renegotiating its license with the cable provider, Comcast. As part of the community needs assessment, the City is holding a public hearing on Wednesday, February 3 at 6 PM at Cambridge City Hall. CCTV receives most of its funding through this contract, and it is critical that Comcast representatives are aware of the public support of CCTV's work in the community.  Everyone is invited to attend the hearing - rather than asking everyone to speak, we are asking for signatures on this petition.

We, the undersigned, request the following for CCTV in the next cable license:

Programming

%u2022 Comcast will continue to provide a minimum of 3 channels (or 18mhz of bandwidth) with option for more channels/bandwidth after certain benchmarks are reached.  Current channel locations (9, 10 & 22) will not change.  Channels will have stereo, SD and HD capacity, as well as all new technologies available to other channels on the Cambridge subscriber system. PEG access channels will be included on all service tiers.

%u2022 CCTV%u2019s programming shall appear on the electronic program guide and website provided by Comcast, and Comcast will provide CCTV%u2019s listings along with its own provided to TV Guide and any other listing service used by Comcast.

%u2022 Comcast will provide any service it offers via the cable system, at no charge, for use in CCTV's facilities and any neighborhood centers established by CCTV.

%u2022 Should CCTV relocate, Comcast will provide reconnection at no charge via fiber to its headend, and provide fiber connections to any satellite locations established during the franchise period.

%u2022 Comcast will provide the capability to transmit live on CCTV%u2019s channels from locations throughout Cambridge.

%u2022Comcast will provide the interconnection of any CCTV channel with all contiguous Comcast systems, and with Cambridge Educational Access and City TV-8.

%u2022 Should another provider enter the Cambridge market, Comcast will facilitate the interconnection of public access channels to the new providers%u2019 system(s).

Promotion

%u2022 Annually, Comcast will allow one CCTV bill insertion, CCTV cross-channel promotion on other channels five times, and check off on monthly bills for contributions from subscribers.

%u2022 Upon request, Comcast will provide CCTV aggregated subscriber information, and shall facilitate a survey of subscribers by CCTV and mailings to subscribers directly from CCTV.

%u2022Comcast will provide, at CCTV%u2019s expense, CCTV promotional material to all new subscribers.

Other services

%u2022Comcast will provide CCTV five internet cable modems with the highest level of service for any application that CCTV deems necessary, including, but not limited to, video streaming, hosting of web pages, and e-mail. 

%u2022Comcast will provide two internet cable modems with the highest level service for each public housing development in the city for the purpose of providing wi-fi.

Thank you for your support!