(APN) ATLANTA — People TV is moving forward with a restructuring process of letting go all former employees, and rehiring new employees at lower pay. This restructuring process was mandated by the City of Atlanta in its recent contract and funding agreement with People TV. People TV will not receive any of its newly approved funding from the City […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — Jack Jersawitz, a radical leftist activist and commentator with over thirty years of significant contributions to Atlanta and Georgia politics, has passed away, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. Jersawitz was 78. He died of esophageal cancer after spending several weeks in the hospital and then in hospice care. Jersawitz was born in Brooklyn, New York, and lived […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — People TV, the non-profit organization which has managed the City of Atlanta’s public access channel for community news since at least the 1980’s, might get two more years of funding from the City, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. Last week, legislation to fund People TV for two years in the amount of 350,000 dollars, and legislation to […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — People TV, Inc., is winding down as an organization in what appears to be the final months of the historic Atlanta institution, and is preparing to formally dissolve as a corporation with the office of the Secretary of State of Georgia, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. The last day of People TV programming is planned to be […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — The City Council of Atlanta appears likely to approve a funding measure to extend the life of People TV, an Atlanta public access channel, for one year. The Finance/Executive Committee unanimously approved the funding last week, at the November 30, 2011, meeting. The proposed ordinance would transfer 180,000 dollars from the non-departmental budget for public access […]
Read more41 Days to Black for People TV; Council Slow to Act By Matthew Cardinale (APN) ATLANTA — People TV will end its programming on December 31, 2011, if the City Council and Mayor of Atlanta do not take action. As previously reported by Atlanta Progressive News, after the Georgia legislature passed franchising legislation that allowed AT&T to compete with […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — Following two votes at the Full Council meeting on Monday, October 17, 2011, Atlanta Progressive News has revised its scorecard of Atlanta City Council Members, which now includes eighteen votes on legislation or other matters. APN first issued a scorecard in 2009, and has re-issued the scorecard with additional items twice previously. Of note in the […]
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