In addition to the comments that NYS and city laws created the MNN, many public access stations around the country rely primarily on either state or county funding in order to exist in the first place. These station place restrictions on the public access producers who do pay for membership, rental of the equipment and studio for their productions. Lately, many producers - produce their shows with their own equipment and just distribute their shows to their station with restrictions based on old archaic policies which may be unenforceable at this point. However, in many localities it is still the government that provides the station with the majority of operating funds for the station which includes funds for equipment, operations and capital budget. Therefore, for public access stations in these circumstances are probably "Quasi-government agencies". Let the fireworks begin.
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