CHICAGO MEDIA ACTION
                3411 W. Diversey Avenue / Chicago IL 60647
                            February 20, 2003




Daniel J. Schmidt
President and Chief Executive Officer, WTTW-TV
Window To The World Communications, Inc (WWCI)
5400 North Saint Louis Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60625-4698

Email % RWEINGARD@networkchicago.com
Renee Weingard, Assistant to the President


Dear Mr. Schmidt,

Chicago Media Action (CMA, formerly Chicago Progressive Media Working Group)
is still very interested in meeting with you and WWCI producers to establish
evenings of televised forums on issues deemed important by a number of local
community organizations representing working class people.

A copy of our original January 1, 2003, Express Mail request is at
www.chicagomediaaction.org.

Your stated reasons for not meeting in early January were perhaps valid at
the time. Happily, the perceived obstacles should now be gone.

During our follow-up phone call on January 6, Ms. Renee Weingard said you
would not meet with us because our suggested forums "just didn't seem
feasible. ... We're sorry. Its not going to work out for us. There are new
'budget counts,' and there is a freeze on new programming."

Your written response came January 15 in an email that simply said the
sample lead-in documentaries we provided were outdated.

The "'budget counts'" plea became moot two days after our phone call, when
the John C. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced it was giving
WWCI a new $500,000 grant. Unless you allocate that money to something
else, more money is now available for programming.

We understand your concern that programming be current. If you feel our
sample award-winning documentaries are not timely for the urgent first
forum on Iraq, rest assured that we and your staff can quickly identify
newer appropriate lead-in materials.

The forum on Iraq is badly needed, and public television should respond to
the community's call for better information. (Polls show that Americans
hunger for public debate about this war. WYCC-TV Chicago public television
did an excellent student forum; and, ironically, commercial stations are
heeding this call. "Oprah" has just done two shows on the topic.)

We think regular forums will receive support from a wide range of
interests. Not only from ourselves and the organizations who endorse our
request for a meeting with you. Interests such as: The WWCI Board of
Trustees and emeriti, WWCI staff, the Satellite Council donors, the WTTW
Community Advisory Committee, and fund drive "Members." And foundations who
give grants, corporations who do underwriting, agencies who book
advertising, FCC commissioners, "media reform" lawyers, local and national
activist organizations, more viewers like us, and more citizens of the areas
you are licensed to serve.

Please respond soon with some possible dates and times for our meeting with
you.



         Yours truly,

         CMA, per Ron Kunde. Please reply to: list@chicagomediaaction.org


Cc: Endorsers of the meeting request, WTTW Advisory Committee members, and
others.