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Article: Forum Net's PEG Plans Draw Fire.
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- May 17, 1999
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The Forum Network is drawing a new round of flak for trying to launch by late this summer or early fall, with carriage on community-access channels.
Forum -- a partnership between The Freedom Forum and public broadcaster WETA -- is trying to create a regional nonprofit public-affairs network for the Washington, D.C., area.
Ed Turner, a former Cable News Network executive, is president of Forum and has been working on its drive to secure carnage.
The new network, originally set to debut this spring, has had trouble finding berths on the half-dozen cable systems that serve the Beltway and its adjoining environs, so its debut has been delayed to ...