Sacramento cable commission vote may end funding for student media program

Sacramento’s Educational Cable Consortium (SECC), which provides hands-on video production training to more than 2,000 students each year, could lose all county funding. The Sacramento Metropolitan Cable Television Commission will vote tomorrow on a proposal to cut SECC funding to zero by July, citing a sharp decline in cable TV subscriber fees that support public, educational, and government programming. SECC leaders say losing funding would effectively shut the program down, while the Commission argues remaining funds must focus on core services like broadcasting government meetings, which are not currently at risk.