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New York City Expands Community Media under Cable Deal

HeadlineAug 11, 2011

New York City has reached an agreement with the cable giants Cable Vision and Time Warner that includes a major expansion of community media. The deal doubles the number of public, educational and government access channels, bringing community media programming to high-definition and video-on-demand formats. The cable giants will fund WiFi service in 32 city parks, develop more than 40 public computing centers, and furnish free internet in public libraries.

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