CHICAGO MEDIA ACTION ALERT: August 19, 2005
http://www.chicagomediaaction.org

There are some events of note coming up in the next week regarding Chicago's main
PBS affiliate -- WTTW, Channel 11 -- plus a national rebroadcast of a recent CMA event.

Details are below.

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Two imminent events provide very good chances to mobilize more allies in the 
fight for Channel 11. 

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1. August 20, this Saturday evening! Come to the live(!) Millennium Park broadcast 
of the WTTW anniversary 'bash'. 

http://wttw.com/50/

- Bring paper and pen to get contact information from people you will talk to. Bring friends. 
And signs for the cameras, if you can. 

- [Some suggestions for signs to make and bring:] "Elites, Affluence, and Advertising!" 
... "Community TV, Not Commercial TV!" ... "Stop advertising to children!" ... "Dump 
WTTW Corporation!" ... "Working Class Media!" ... "Dump the Board!" ... "Journalism, 
not Crain's and Sirott!" ... "No license renewal!" ... "PUBLIC television, not WTTW Inc.!" 
... "Charity for Bank Corporations?" ... "chicago media action DOT org!" ... 

- Meet up at the northwest corner of the band shell's lawn area at about 7 p.m. The 
live broadcast special event begins at 7:30 p.m. Millions will be watching. 

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2. August 28, Sunday. Come to "The 2nd Annual WTTW Kids Fun and Run" event for 
kids and families. 9:00 a.m. to Noon at Cannon Drive just South of Fullerton in 
Chicago~Rs Lincoln Park neighborhood. There will be entertainment and big PBS kid 
show characters. 

http://www.wttw.com/funandrun

- Many of these families and the general public in the park might want to demand a 
new Channel 11 licensee with a community board that will do innovative noncommercial 
programming for kids and families. Channel 11 is supposed to be Chicago's channel 
for the underserved, a special reserved alternative to the advertiser-controlled other 
licensees. 

- Meet up at Cannon south of Fullerton at about 9 a.m. Bring paper, friends, and signs, 
if you can.  We will do our lobbying of the families and the public without paying the 
$30 fee to run or walk. 

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Hope to see you there!

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Chicago Media Action makes its Free Speech TV debut on the week of August 22, 2005. 
The July 13, 2005 CMA forum on The Threat of U.S. Intervention in Iran will be telecast 
nationally on Free Speech TV (Dish Network 9415) at these times (EDT): 

Monday, August 22 -- 2pm, 8pm
Tuesday, August 23 -- 1:30pm
Wednesday, August 24 -- 4:30pm
Friday, August 26 -- 6am

Learn more about Free Speech TV:

http://www.freespeech.org

Learn more about the forum:

http://www.chicagomediaaction.org/index.php?link=2005-07-13_iran

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