Atlanta Public TV Fights for Money and Relevance

Atlanta’s public access channel, People TV, will likely live to see another day. After months in dire financial straits, the station has apparently secured funding for at least the first half of 2012.

For more than 25 years, People TV has broadcast just about every kind of programming imaginable. Among them, public affairs shows like Democracy Now, explicit music videos, and youth talk shows.

Despite its quirkiness, or perhaps because of it, the channel has come to mean a lot to those who watch and produce its shows.