The Chronicle‘s Matt Stiles reports that City Council has finally approved a contract with Houston MediaSource, the (recently) controversial custodian of the public access channel:
It took more than five months, but City Council today finally approved a contract for its cable public-access channel, Houston MediaSource.
The council, which rejected a previous contract in September over concerns about explicit programming, voted 11-4 to give the non-profit channel about $400,000 over the next six months.
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Voting against the contract, which includes new provisions for keeping potentially obscene material off the air, were council members Addie Wiseman, Shelley Sekula-Gibbs, Michael Berry and Mark Ellis.
The six-month contract, coupled with the turnover at MediaSource, seems like a good idea. Council can revisit the issue in six months if problems persist.
