Public invited to BLTV meeting
The county will be holding a public meeting this Thursday, Aug. 12 at 6:30 p.m. in the Warren County Administrative Offices to address the start of a new cable company in Warren County.
“Ben Lomand Communications, through a subsidiary known as BLTV, is applying for a cable TV franchise,” said Education Committee chairman Bill Zechman. “The Education Committee has historically handled the portfolio for cable TV matters.”
Much of cable TV regulation was taken away from local governments in the deregulation of the business in the ’90s.
“But one power that local governments do maintain, and one they may exercise only every so many years, and that’s the franchise,” Zechman said. “What BLTV is asking for is an initial 15-year franchise, and basically the committee is supposed to hold a public hearing and just see if anybody wishes to speak in favor, or in opposition, to the proposed franchise by BLTV.”
The company hopes to have the franchise proposal ready for presentation to the full commission at its Aug. 16 meeting. The public is invited to attend and present their opinions of the proposal.