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Ohio public media and Ohio Channel ask legislature to sustain statewide broadcasting network
Summary
Officials from the Broadcast Educational Media Commission, Ohio Channel and public broadcasters told the House Workforce and Higher Education Committee the governor's budget would fund operations, maintenance and content development across a statewide public-media network and warned aging equipment and rising costs threaten service continuity.
Chairman Young and members of the House Workforce and Higher Education Committee heard testimony Feb. 4 from leaders of Ohio's public-media system seeking continued state support for the Broadcast Educational Media Commission (BEMC) and its partners, including the Ohio Channel, the Statehouse News Bureau and public TV and radio stations across Ohio.
Why it matters: BEMC is the state-funded interconnection that delivers legislative proceedings and other government programming to Ohioans. Witnesses said the network also provides emergency messaging, education content for classrooms and services for Ohioans with visual impairments. They told the committee that maintenance, equipment replacement and content-development funding are needed to keep the system operating and to adopt emerging broadcast standards.
Executive director Jeffrey Phillips told the committee the request covers four budget lines inside the…
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