Hope Springs Anew For Leased-Access Advocate

Leased-access programmer Charlie Stogner hopes the new regime at the Federal Communications Commission will finally yield a ruling on whether cable operators must provide leased-access programmers the same ability to deliver programming via the Internet to the cable headend, and on the same terms, as non-leased programmers. Stogner's been pushing the FCC for more than a year to release a decision on his petition, which was filed back in March of last year. Stogner says he is paying $100 a month in eight different places while other non-leased programmers, HBO for example, not only get free satellite reception but operators put up the dish and all the equipment.