Iowa Survey of Citizen Media Please give us your contact information: Does your town have a cable TV franchise and if you have any kind of a local access channel in your town? How would you describe your local access channel(s)? How many local channels do you have? Can you tell me what kind of programming is on your channel? How is your channel funded? How many staff work on the access channel? Does your town have a Cable Commission? If yes, who is the Chairperson and how could I reach that person? What percentage franchise fee does your town receive? What percentage is put into the access channel operation and how much is put into the General Fund? Other uses of the franchise fee? How are cable TV complaints resolved in your town? Does your community regulate cable TV rates? Does your community have any Institutional Networks (INET) Is there any cable competition in your community (2 or more cable companies)? If yes, who are they and has it affected the rates? Are you aware of the proposed legislation in the Iowa Legislature and Congress that could dramatically effect your franchise and access operations? Are you aware of the FCC's actions to eliminate your town's ability to franchise? Are you aware of the Iowa court case that could eliminate all francise fees? Would you like to be kept informed of these developments? would you be wiling to play programing geared to raise the level of public debate? |Public Access Bandwidth| |Workshop| |Media Literacy| |The Players| |Courts| |Truthyness| |MythBusters| |Contact Us| |Davenport| |Dubuque| |Waterloo| |Des Moines| |ITA| |Fact| |Last Years Position Paper | |Posts| |pdf Legislation| |FCC Opinions| |Survey| |Webcast| |North Liberty| |West Branch| |Maquoketa| |Council Bluffs| |Coralville| |Dyersville| |Investigative Support| |FAQ| |Links| |CALM-R| |Local Control| |Net Neutrality| |4th Estate| |Activate|