American Community Television Calls on AT&T to Make PEG Channels Available to the Blind and Vision Impaired Community

American Community Television (ACT) sent letters to Randall Stephenson, the President of AT&T, and to Jacquelyn Brand, the chair of the AT&T Advisory Panel on Access & Aging, asking that AT&T deliver Public, Educational and Government (PEG) access channels the same as all other channels on the U-Verse system.

AT&T puts all PEG channels in a region on Channel 99 and through a series of on-screen menus viewers access the PEG channels. No other cable operator treats PEG channels this way, PEG channels are usually treated the same as the other commercial channels, accessible by selecting the number of the channel through the remote control.