Fulton County Takes over
Library's Cable Channel
With almost no discussion, the Fulton County (Ga.) Commission at its March 18 meeting transferred control of Atlanta-Fulton Public Library's educational cable channel from library staff to the county's public affairs office. The library channel has been on the air for 17 years, operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Library director Julie Hunter and cable manager Judith Lunsford attended the meeting, but were not expecting the topic to come up, since the agenda item had only been added earlier in the day. Roy Yancy, chairman of the library's board of trustees, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he wasn't certain whether the county could take over the station, since it is licensed as a library channel.
Commissioner Nancy Boxill said she thought the channel was underutilized, but Yancy suspects that the move was prompted by the library's inability to fulfill a recent county request for programming.
Posted April 6, 1998.
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