CHICAGO MEDIA ACTION ALERT: November 22, 2004 http://www.chicagomediaaction.org CAN TV (Chicago Access Network Television) is Chicago's fleet of public access cable TV channels. A funding ordinance to help support CAN TV, cosponsored by Mayor Daley and Alderman Bernard Stone, is slated for a vote by the Chicago City Council on Wednesday, December 1. The final obstacle is the cable company Comcast, which is lobbying against the ordinance even though the ordinance is not at all burdensome to either Comcast or Comcast cable subscribers. We have been asking for you to voice your support for CAN TV, and our progress thus far is a testament to your support. We're asking for your help one more time to support one of the remaining open media resources in Chicago. Please take a few minutes today for the following Chicago media actions: (1) If you live in Chicago, please call or write your local alderman. Encourage him or her to support the Stone/Daley ordinance for CAN TV. Contact information for all of the members of the Chicago City Council is listed here: http://tinyurl.com/4cuyr (2) Please take a moment to thank Mayor Daley for cosponsoring the ordinance, and encourage him to pass the Stone/Daley ordinance for CAN TV. If you live in Chicago, you can call 311 and ask to leave a message for the Mayor's office. Other contact information for the Mayor's office, as well as a suggested letter, can be found here: http://www.cantv.org/mayor2.htm (3) If you subscribe to Comcast, please take a moment to contact Comcast and encourage *them* to support the ordinance. You can call Comcast toll free at 1-866-594-1234, or you can write to them (this is particularly recommended) at this address: Comcast 1500 McConnor Parkway Schaumburg, IL 60173 We especially encourage you to attend the next Chicago City Council meeting: Place: City Hall, 121 N. LaSalle St., 2nd Floor, City Council Chambers Date/Time: Wednesday, December 1, starting at 10 AM. To learn more about the ordinance and these efforts, you can call CAN TV at 312-738-1400 or visit: http://www.cantv.org/update.htm *** *** *** *** *** *** *** This is an email from Chicago Media Action, a Chicago activist group devoted to media issues. Chicago Media Action, P.O. Box 14140, Chicago IL 60614-0140 Call toll-free: 1-866-260-7198 Web: http://www.chicagomediaaction.org E-mail: cma@chicagomediaaction.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, simply send an email requesting removal to mailinglist@chicagomediaaction.org