PRINTER'S NO. 18
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
19
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY DAY, BISHOP, SCHREIBER, KNOWLES, HENNESSEY,
DiGIROLAMO, THOMAS, YOUNGBLOOD, DIAMOND, BIZZARRO,
CALTAGIRONE, COHEN, O'BRIEN, FREEMAN, SCHLOSSBERG, PASHINSKI,
D. COSTA, MILLARD, KIM, READSHAW, MARSICO, WATSON, MURT,
DeLUCA, CONKLIN, GABLER, WHEELAND, MAJOR, DONATUCCI AND
McCARTER, JANUARY 21, 2015
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35,
JANUARY 21, 2015
A RESOLUTION
Designating the week of January 25 through 31, 2015, as "PCN:
Pennsylvania's Neighborhood Week" in Pennsylvania and
congratulating the Pennsylvania Cable Network on its 20th
anniversary of coverage of the General Assembly.
WHEREAS, The nation's advent of cable technology and birth of
today's cable industry began in the valleys of eastern
Pennsylvania more than 65 years ago; and
WHEREAS, A rapid growth in the number of entrepreneurial
cable operators, developed in all corners of this Commonwealth,
emerged to provide Pennsylvanians with television service in
advance of most other areas of the United States; and
WHEREAS, On August 29, 1979, these cable companies combined
to form the Pennsylvania Cable Network (PCN), a nonprofit
corporation created to provide a public service for the
distribution of educational programming by Pennsylvania
institutions of higher learning; and
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