IPTVision > TV localism retains its defenders, if not its logic

[Digital TV Facts: The Latest | The switch to digital television] The most striking evidence this week of the gathering waves around the video-distribution marketplace is the increasingly tinny ring of proclamations from the defenders of the status quo. Seattle’s City Council renewed Comcast’s cable TV franchise agreement, under which the company pays the city 5 percent of gross revenues and spends millions more on arts and public-access funding.

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