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Uxbridge cable committee urges Charter to restore PEG grant, carry HD channels and consider 5% franchise fee; votes to send priorities to town manager
Summary
The committee reviewed a draft franchise/license from Charter that removes the prior $105,000 PEG capital grant and shifts PEG funding to gross-revenue shares. Members prioritized restoring the PEG grant, HD carriage for PEG channels, and pursuing a revenue increase from 4% to 5%, and voted to send a letter to the town manager outlining these requests.
The Town of Uxbridge Cable Advisory Committee reviewed a draft renewal of the town's cable franchise/license with Charter/Spectrum on Aug. 7 and voted to ask the town manager to press Charter on several items, including restoration of a PEG capital grant, carriage of PEG channels in high definition and parity in the Spectrum streaming app, and pursuing an increase in the annual franchise fee from 4% to the 5% statutory cap.
Speaker 2 (committee member/staff) said the draft license provided by Charter's licensing representative removes the PEG capital grant and shifts PEG funding to a share of gross revenue. "The PEG capital grant has been removed," Speaker 2 said, and added the draft projects higher PEG revenue over 10 years under a 5% fee…
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