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Also at Monday's meeting, John Suire, coordinator, Holden Community Television, was recognized for a production of HCTV's Spotlight on Literacy-Readers Workshop that won first place at the Alliance for Community Media - Northeast Region 2009 Video Festival.

The report released by the Alliance for Community Media found that not only did cable prices drop minimally or not at all in markets with new telecom competition, but that many cable franchises are cutting or eliminating public, educational, and government (PEG) channels and facilities from their offerings, and the new competitors are doing a poor job of picking up the slack.

The report released by the Alliance for Community Media found that not only did cable prices drop minimally or not at all in markets with new telecom competition, but that many cable franchises are cutting or eliminating public, educational, and government (PEG) channels and facilities from their offerings, and the new competitors are doing a poor job of picking up the slack.

Fortunately, however, there are, all throughout the United States, individual media activists and groups like the Alliance for Community Media who have championed a whole other vision of what television can be: not corporate and commercial but democratic and community-oriented.

The Alliance for Community Media will encourage its public access station members to use the 18-30 VIP as the basis for organizing and sponsoring 18-30 VIP forums with the young adults in their communities.

The city's government access channel, Channel 12, has won first-place honors from the Alliance for Community Media - Northeast Regional, as part of its 11th annual Northeast Regional Video Contest.

Among the organizations that filed the challenge, claiming the FCC abused its authority, are the Alliance for Community Media, the National Association of Counties, the National League of Cities and the National Association of Telecommunications Officials and Advisors.

Alliance for Community Media, Washington, DC $15,000 For research and publication of an updated version of the Community Media Resource Directory with information from approximately 2000 media centers worldwide.