CenturyLink may move public, educational and governmental networks to subchannels on Channel...
CenturyLink may move public, educational and governmental networks to subchannels on Channel 99, much like AT&T has on its pay-TV service, a group of PEG programmers said. The American Community Television group wrote CenturyLink CEO Glenn Post on Friday asking…
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for clarification on the company’s plans for its pay-TV service. Moving PEG networks to a single channel “is unacceptable to us as it discriminates against the blind or visually impaired” who may have trouble using on-screen menus to find the channel they want, ACT President John Rocco said. The group hasn’t heard back from the telco, which may not have received the letter until Tuesday, Executive Director Bunnie Riedel told us. CenturyLink continues to deliver PEG networks as individual channels, and it’s monitoring what the FCC and industry are doing on the issue of how to handle such programming, a company spokesman said. The telco’s Prism TV service distributes the channels “using the same process as most cable television providers,” he said.