In the United States, every community that is served by one or more cable TV companies has the right to collect a cable television franchise fee, based on the Cable Communications Act of 1984 Section 622, from those cable companies to fund a Public-access television cable TV channel. In addition, if desired by the municipality, the cable television companies must make Public, educational, and government access (PEGA) channels available for the public access entity to distribute the local programming.
This list was initiated based on a list of public-access stations collected by Alliance for Community Media (ACM), with some defunct organizations removed. The distribution of organizations here does not always correlate to population; for example, although California has the most stations listed, Michigan and Minnesota each have more stations than New York.
Charter Type: P = Public-access television E = Educational-access television G = Government-access television
Channels
- List of public-access TV stations in the United States (Alaskaâ€"Connecticut)
- List of public-access TV stations in the United States (Delawareâ€"Kentucky)
- List of public-access TV stations in the United States (Louisianaâ€"Montana)
- List of public-access TV stations in the United States (Nebraskaâ€"Pennsylvania)
- List of public-access TV stations in the United States (Rhode Islandâ€"Texas)
- List of public-access TV stations in the United States (Utahâ€"Wyoming)
See also
- Community Media Database, created with Benton Foundation funding and support from the New America Foundation's Media Policy Initiative, includes information on over 2,000 U.S. community access television providers in a Google Doc spreadsheet, an access provider-updated CiviCRM database, and interactive state-based Google maps, as well as information for all U.S. Non-Commercial Educational Radio & TV licensees.
- Alliance for Community Media
- [1] American Community Television PEG channels advocacy group
- Global Village CAT List of PEG channels and centers
- Public Access Directory List of PEG channels and centers
- PEGhub List of PEG channels and centers
- List maintained by William Ames List of PEG channels and centers
- Mapping Access List of PEG channels and centers
- National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors (NATOA) A national cable franchising trade association
- National Center for Media Engagement Interactive Mapping Tool
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