Re: following up (David Jolliffe)

Hi Frank,

Here is the sponsor list of the shows you requested:

Bridging Heaven and Earth - Sponsored by James Baraz

Magic of Painting - Sponsored by Joey Williams

GenderVision - Sponsored by Imogen Binnie

Kids A Cookin - Sponsored by Freddy Cunningham

Link TV World Music Block - Sponsored by Freddy Cunningham

Link TV Explore TV - Sponsored by Tracey Quezada

American Songwriter - Sponsored by Jeff Kimmich

The Jook Joint - Sponsored by Ed Broussard

Appetite for Entertaining - Sponsored by Donald Bauer

The Reading Lady - Sponsored by Ken Moshesh

Down In Front - Sponsored by Moby Theobald

Green By Design - Sponsored by Berkeley Community Media

Garden Wise with Arlena - Sponsored by Berkeley Community Media

Political Chowder - NO LONGER AIRING

Hope this helps-
Best regards,
David Jolliffe

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thanks, David, for the list of sponsors. But we still need to nail down the answer to The question of is there a policy of providing upon request the contact information of the local sponsor /producer of a show on B-TV. And if there is, what is the policy exactly? If there is not such a policy any more, when did it change and why? For years before every show on B-TV there was a notice: "THE SOLE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CONTENT OF THE SHOW IS THAT OF THE LOCAL SPONSOR /PRODUCER. THE CONTACT INFORMATION OF THE SPONSOR /PRODUCER IS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST." I think the logic of this policy was the city and its third party non- profit agent BERKELEY COMMUNITY MEDIA as well as the cable company are prohibited "from exercising editorial control over content of programs carried on PEG channels and absolved them from liability for that content." (Sec. 638, 639 - Baldwin, 407, 180; Roberts). So people should be able to talk to the local sponsors and producers about the content of the shows.

I see that BERKELEY COMMUNITY MEDIA is listed as the sponsor for two of the shows. This seems to violate the prohibition "from exercising editorial control over content of program." how does this work? this is disturbing!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore