The USA regulator FCC is one step closer to a rule change that threatens to de-fund community media and technology, by undermining a long-established principle that cable and internet companies owe rent to municipalities for use of the public right-of-way.

Sabrina Roach, board member of the Alliance for Community Media Foundation, joins the Radio Survivor podcast to discuss what’s at stake. The future of public access, educational and government TV channels and community media technology centers hangs in the balance.