 Despite the social service they provide through their focus on local issues, community media often face a number of challenges, including unfavourable regulation, censorship, unfair licensing processes, inequitable access to the frequency spectrum, lack of formal recognition, low funding, lack of skilled journalists and media professionals, and competition from private and state broadcasters.The first Public-access television station in the United States considered to be community media was set up in 1968 in Dale City, Virginia.It was managed by the city's Junior Chamber of Commerce and ran programming for two years without advertising.