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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes Cable Communications Commission - 07/19/2010 RECEIVED MINUTES CABLE COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION SEP 1 4 2010 July 19,2010 CITY SECRETARY'S OFFICE PRESENT Chairperson Connie Gutierrez, Commissioners Steve West, Carolyn Moon, Latrice Sellers, Leo Estrada ABSENT None CITY STAFF Lisa Aguilar,Assistant City Attorney, Kim Womack,Director of Public Information Ms. Gutierrez called the meeting to order at 5:58 pm and verified the necessary quorum. REVIEW AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING ABSENCES None REVIEW AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING MINUTES Mr. West made the motion to accept the minutes as presented from the June 2010 meeting and Ms. Sellers seconded the motion and all present were in favor. COMMISSION APPOINTMENTS AND TERMS Ms. Gutierrez's term on the Cable Communications Commission expires July 31, 2010. She is eligible for reappointment by the City Council. In June the Commission asked staff to bring back a current list of applicants for consideration. Ms. Sellers moved to open nominations from those included in the list of applicants. The motion failed for lack of a second. A motion was further made by Ms. Moon to recommend Ms. Gutierrez to City Council for reappointment. Mr. West seconded and all were in favor with the exception of Ms. Sellers who voted no and Ms. Gutierrez who abstained. REVIEW AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING VIOLATION APPEALS A brief discussion took place regarding the fact there were no programming violations. The only violation was failure to turn in tapes by Mr. Henry M. Di Carlo, Jr. for the show Dialogues. Staff did not catch the violation in normal processing and a letter will be sent during July to the producer. REVIEW AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING PRODUCERS CHANGING PEG CHANNELS Mr. Gordy issued a letter (which was included in the agenda packet) regarding a program called the Christian Preterists Association of South Texas and changing programming from Channel 10 to Channel 18. Dean McFall who is one of the producers of the show was also present. The producer noted he was confused as to why he was denied access to broadcast his program on Channel 18 since the programming was religious in nature. Mr. Nesmith (President of the Channel 18 PAUG) was not present at the meeting. Ms. Moon asked to see the DVD and the Commission noted nothing of a questionable nature. The Commission asked the item be placed on the August agenda and ask that Mr. Nesmith be present or send a written explanation as to what occurred regarding the program. Mr. McFall also noted he had been refunded his money from the Channel 18 PAUG. REVIEW AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING CABLE OPERATOR COMPLAINTS No cable operator representative was in attendance at the meeting. A discussion occurred regarding the planned move of Time Warner to migrate the PEG channels to a digital format prior SCANNED to broadcast channels located on the basic tier. The City opposes such a move and will follow up with Time Warner regarding a written response to the planned move. Likewise, the Grande Communications signal located at Time Warner is an issue and the City wants assurance the PEG channels will continue to be rebroadcast from Time Warner to Grande Communications. Among the discussion staff and the Commission discussed issues with Time Warner complaints. Staff will begin to post slides on CCTV on how to file complaints along with follow-up procedures with Time Warner since customer service standards are part of the franchise agreement. REVIEW AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING MEDIA DELIVERY LOGS All was well with the media logs PAUG UPDATES Channel 10: Mr. Gordy briefly provided an updated and noted he had applications for 6 producers in progress. Channel 18: Mr. Nesmith was not in attendance. PUBLIC COMMENT None. ADJOURNMENT OF MEETING Ms. Moon moved that the meeting be adjourned. Commission agreed and the meeting adjourned at 6:37 p.m.