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Why does Mediacom Channel 22 carry programs from Iowa like “Iowa Conversations” and “I Love Dubuque”?

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Why does Mediacom Channel 22 carry programs from Iowa like “Iowa Conversations” and “I Love Dubuque”?

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Ottawa is about 100 miles from Iowa. I’d like to suggest replacing this channel with another fine PBS station, WYCC Channel 20 from Chicago. A. Phyllis Peters, communications director for Mediacom, North Central Division, said Mediacom reserves one channel, MC22, for the purpose of televising local or regional programs. Typically, these are high school or college sports events or public affairs programs of regional interest. In most cases, the programming is distributed in a unified way over the portion of its network that reaches communities in both Iowa and Illinois. However, Mediacom is currently making changes and investing in additional equipment to be installed on the Illinois side of its network. It will provide an efficient and ongoing way for Mediacom to deliver Illinois-specific programming to a much greater degree, inserting on the Illinois portions of its network programs of local and regional interest, Peters said. “Our network changes will be implemented by mid-year. We h

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