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From: dmq6899@tamsun.TAMU.EDU (Dave Querin)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Cable Censorship
Summary: Cable Co. Drops Network
Keywords: MTV GONE!
Message-ID: <2153@tamsun.TAMU.EDU>
Date: 26 Jun 91 18:48:59 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
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TCA Cable Company, based in Tyler, Texas, has announced that
they are dropping the MTV network from their cable service.
It seems that MTV was unwilling to negotiate a programming
change for TCA (a relatively small cable provider, servicing
four states, Lousiana, Texas, Mississippi, and Arkansas).  
TCA finds MTV's programming offensive.  There was no public
opinion polling done on behalf of TCA (aside from the phone
calls they received from unsatisfied subscribers).  Now, with
fewer than 7 days to go before the cancellation, they make the
news public.  Is this not a scandal?  The customer service rep
I spoke with said the programming is too negatively influential
to the public's children (she said it with a smaller vocabulary).
I need to make noise, and big noise about this (I feel).  Anyone
have any suggestions about how to make an impact in this unruly
decision?  Thank you much.

-David Querin
 dmq6899@tamsun.tamu.edu

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