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- produced by PPH Gulfcoast Trainees
- in 2007
It's Called Renaissance Village. But don't let the name fool you. It's the largest FEMA trailer park in the country. It's located about a hundred miles north of New Orleans in Baker, Louisiana. RIght after Hurricane Katrina and Rita, thousands were sent to live there. PPH trainees in the Gulf Coast produced stories that were aired by the nationally syndicated program Making Contact.
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People's Production House joins with 17 leading "digital inclusion" groups in endorsing the Internet for Everyone Campaign today.
PPH joines good government groups and consumer advocates in responding to today's NYS PSC approval of the Verizon-NYC Cable Franchise agreement.
On Wednesday, July 16, the New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) will consider a petition from Verizon to waive certain rules and confirm its franchise agreement with the City of New York. Verizon is asking to be exempted from the 5 year build-out requirement and the first-day PEG provision requirement in its bid to offer cable TV service over a citywide fiber optic network.
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is holding a hearing on the digital television (DTV) transition in Brooklyn on Friday. People's Production House will be testifying at the hearing about the impact the federally mandated switch from analog television broadcasts to digital will have on New Yorkers who rely on over-the-air broadcasts for TV.
As I wrote in an article in February, "Counting Down to the Great Television Turnover," the DTV transition has the potential to disrupt access to free television for the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who get free television over the airwaves.
