The Janesville City Council votes five to one to give City Manager Kevin Lahner oversight of struggling public access TV station JATV.
Last week the Hedberg Public Library board of directors approved a proposal to step away from oversight of JATV’s programming.
Lahner seeks to overhaul programming at the station, which is seeing dwindling royalties as cable television steadily loses subscribers.
For years, the city has paid to run the independently owned JATV. The station televises Janesville city government meetings and other city-focused programming.
The matter was set to go before the council’s consent agenda – a list of items that are approved by a single vote and without discussion.
After council member Michael Jackson pulled the item from the consent agenda, Heather Miller was the sole dissenting vote.
