Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!widener!brendan From: brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Cable Censorship Keywords: MTV GONE! Message-ID: Date: 27 Jun 91 15:14:41 GMT References: <2153@tamsun.TAMU.EDU> Organization: Widener CS Dept Lines: 26 I personally would get the town council, or city council, or whatever, that originally agreed to TCA's bid for providing cable to the area, and make sure they realize that TCA has very possibly gone outside the bounds of the contract that they signed with the town/city. Better Cable TV of Waterville, ME, provided the Playboy Channel to its area (including South China, ME, of ~4000 people) until enough people complained that they took it off the air. Inversely, enough people complained about them not carrying the local Fox station, that they finally gave in and carried Channel 9 out of Boston, so they could kill two birds with one stone -- get Fox programming (my younger brother is now going hog-wild over the Simpsons & Beverly Hills 90210), and they get Celtics basketball [the pre-requisite to everything in Waterville]. Anyway, my point is, if you get enough people complaining or writing letters to the owner of the company, there's bound to be more attention payed to it than a cursory 5-day advance notice that's blindly followed through. -- Brendan Kehoe - Widener Sun Network Manager - brendan@cs.widener.edu Widener University in Chester, PA A Bloody Sun-Dec War Zone Top Ten Surprises in Rocky V -- Number 5, Loveable Character Chewbacca Dies