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The public, education and government-channel advocate, the Alliance for Community Media, has hired a new management firm to oversee the organization’s day-to-day operations. The ACM has selected The Harrington Company, of Minneapolis, as its new association-management firm. On its website Harrington says it offers general office and administration services; financial safeguards, policies and procedures; board and committee coordination; strategy development, marketing and communications planning; conference and event planning; publications and communications; certification and accreditation; membership recruitment and retention; and website management and maintenance.
--- more at original post http://www.governmentvideo.com/article/acm-picks-new-association-management-firm/114532 ---
Denver Open Media's Tony Shawcross has taken the principles of Wikipedia and applied them to local public-access TV. The concept is gaining traction nationally with the Open Media Project, public-access management software developed in-house. [...]
The Open Media Foundation also developed the aforementioned crowdsource-based software for public access channels, the Open Media Project, developed with funding from a 2008 Knight Foundation News Challenge grant.
After testing it with six public-access stations through 2010, Shawcross realized it was time to start over. "The only way to make the software work was to rebuild it as a software as a service in the cloud," he says. That's exactly what happened after a year of fundraising and another year of coding, the Open Media Project officially launched this year. The first customer is BETV in Berkeley, California, slated for launch by the end of this month. [...]
The biggest hurdle: The public-access charter with the City and County of Denver and Comcast is currently up for renewal, a contract spanning public-access channels, an educational channel for Denver Public Schools and two channels covering city government. All six are currently broadcast in standard definition.
Darryn Zuehlke, GM for Denver Media Services, is handling contract negotiations for the city and says he doesn't expect there to be much change...
Shawcross has been pushing for a conversion to high definition, holding that standard definition will be obsolete in a few years. Zuehlke says he expects that only one of three Denver Open Media channels to get the upgrade to HD. "It's a compromise," says Zuehlke.
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Public access cable operations provide important opportunities for voices rarely heard on mainstream media. These operations were often begun with the same high hopes that many of us now invest in the Internet or social media. Underserved communities fought for the right to get on cable, and they won the right to require cable companies to provide public access channels as part of the public interest payment for using the public streets and alleys to get to cable consumers. But now in 21 states franchise agreements have expired and funding has been slashed, putting an estimated 500 public access channels in severe risk of going off the air. The 2011 Community Access Preservation Act did not become law, but advocates are working on a version of the bill to introduce in the Senate this year. What does the future hold for public access cable? DCTV, the public access operation in the District of Columbia has served the community for 25 years. Whether it is a daily roundtable on local D.C. politics or a documentary by high school students, DCTV is a forum for the community. But who watches? Are the past hopes for public access realized? And what does the future hold for DCTV? Join us for a conversation with both participants and experts in community television as they discuss the role of public access TV in D.C. in particular and the policy environment for public access TV across the country.
This event is the fourth and final event in the Beyond Mainstream Media series. Visit the series webpage for more information.
--- http://newamerica.net/events/2013/beyond_main_stream_media --- PARTICIPANTS Tonya Gonzalez
Vice President of Public Affairs, DCTV Bunnie Reidel
Director, American Community Television Robyn Holden
Program Host, DCTV
Founder, The National Media Consortium Moderator
Mark Lloyd
Director, Media Policy Initiative
Increased competition and lower prices. These are just a few of the broken promises resulting from state legislation that has taken away local franchising authority, restricted the deployment of communitybroadband networks and decimated PEG operations. The workshop will sample the current state of affairs in states with statewide franchising and explore some of the new threats that are surfacing. When:
May 30, 2013
Westin St. Francis on Union Square, San Francisco, CA
BB&K Speaker:
Joe Van Eaton, Partner (Washington, DC).
Download presentation:
State Cable & Telecommunication Deregulation: What Can We Do to Stop the Bleeding? http://bit.ly/ZmINBn
For more than three decades Joel Desprez has been the public face of public television in the Chippewa Valley. Since 1982 Desprez has worked at Chippewa Valley Community Television, taking part in virtually all aspects of operating the station that went on the air just three years before he became involved. Desprez's retirement was announced Thursday. --- more at original post http://www.leadertelegram.com/news/front_page/article_77917cda-c9ab-11e2-bc76-0019bb2963f4.html
Original and locally produced programming for cable channel 3 in Casper is a likely possibility in the near future. The idea is to pull back the curtain on Casper’s city government and spotlight local arts and community events. Wolf Gang of Wyoming LLC., best known for producing the Wyoming Portraits series for Wyoming PBS, is expected to sign a contract with the city for the first year of production and programming services. Their selection comes after city staff called for proposals looking to outsource the educational-governmental channel’s production and equipment costs. Casper based Wolf Gang of Wyoming will be charged with turning the channel into an outlet for educating the public on city government activity and city sponsored events. --- more at original post http://www.casperjournal.com/business/article_7619e3f9-8708-5f53-8db1-eaf937dfa624.html?comment_form=true ---
Cupertino's award-winning 'The Better Part' crew hosted a live production of its program during KMVT's open house Wednesday evening, at its studios.
KMVT Channel 15 is Cupertino's public access channel, and is located at 1400 Terra Bella Avenue in Mountain View. It also serves Los Altos and Mountain View.
Last year, KMVT began its digital capital campaign “Go Digital,” and the open house was the celebration of the initial success of that campaign, and a chance for some of the station's stakeholders to get a look.
"With the great help KMVT volunteers, the City of Cupertino and the City of Los Altos, going digital has become possible," said Shelley Wolfe, executive director of KMVT."
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LMC-TV’s 30th annual Awards Night will honor Habitat for Humanity of Westchester for 25 years of work in the community with the Mary Ann Sullivan Award. The event is on June 5. LMC-TV will also look back on its own history. In addition to a 30-year video retrospective, personalities from each decade will reflect on their time at the public access channel. They include founder Mike Witsch, food truck vendor Chef Johnson, producer and employee Sharon Mosley and LMC-TV board of trustees president Lenny Verrastro. --- more at original post http://mamaroneck.dailyvoice.com/news/lmc-tv-awards-night-celebrates-30-years-decade-decade ---
The day Ed Cohen walked into our station, asking if he could do a weather show, I had no idea that his program would become the most watched and most commented on program ever done at Westford Community Access Television. His episodes have had well over 500 views so far on our website’s video on demand library and our YouTube channel. Who knew that clouds, precipitation, fronts, air masses and such could be so entertaining? Apparently Cohen did. Having taught at several institutions of higher learning including Northeastern University and Bentley College, Cohen has developed quite a following. He obtained his bachelor of science in meteorology from the City College of New York, and his master of science in meteorology from the University of Wisconsin. He currently teaches meteorology and astronomy at Nashua Community College. --- more at original post http://www.wickedlocal.com/westford/newsnow/x83393548/Weathering-the-weather-with-Ed-in-Westford ---
The Community Media Center of Marin is struggling to cope with a projected budget deficit of about $250,000 per year over the next four years. "We may make it through that period if there isn't more revenue set aside, but it won't be pretty on the other end," said Michael Eisenmenger, the Media Center's executive director. He said if the center's expensive digital equipment isn't maintained and kept up to date the center will become antiquated... Under a franchise agreement established by the state Public Utilities Commission, video providers such as Comcast, AT&T and Horizon must pay a minimum of 1 percent of their annual revenue in fees for public, educational and government (commonly referred to as PEG) programming. Under that arrangement Comcast, one of the largest providers of cable television in the country, would be paying about $650,000 a year in PEG fees. Currently, however, Comcast, is paying half that. --- more at original post http://www.marinij.com/ci_23209750 ---
Outgoing District 200 board member Terry Finnegan strongly urged the next board and administration to pursue the technical and financial feasibility of broadcasting its board meetings to the public. The topic has been broached in the past but videotaping D200 meetings has never come to pass. Finnegan, the board's former president, made the request at one of his last D200 meetings. He says it's time. The new board was seated on May 2, following the expiring terms of Finnegan, Valerie Fisher, Amy McCormack, and Dietra Millard. The D200 Board of Education oversees Oak Park and River Forest High School, one of a handful of single-school districts in the state. The high school has never broadcast its regular board or committee meetings, either on its website or on Oak Park's public access channel. Other school districts, such as New Trier High School, broadcasts its board meetings on its site and on local public access TV. --- more at original post http://www.oakpark.com/News/Articles/5-7-2013/Ex_president:-District-200-board-should-broadcast-meetings/ ---
The Tulip Time parades will be taped from a new location for the first time this year — and in part, from the air. Typically the parades are taped and televised from a location in the center of downtown Holland. This year, they will be taped across the Holland Department of Public Safety’s police services building where the Tulip Time offices can be framed in the shot. That location will also allow those taping it to use the small hill there to capture more of the parade at one time, said Matt VanDyken, technology coordinator for city of Holland. “It will give it a little better perspective,” he said. But to make the view even better, the city has purchased a remote aerial camera on a quadcopter and is using a remote backpack that allows the technology department to go to live television from anywhere there is an available cellular signal. The quad copter cost $299, VanDyken said. It has two cameras, one that faces forward and one that faces down. It can rise to 150 feet. It's fully controlled and recorded by an Ipad. It has a WiFi hot spot and, once connected, is operated by Ipad joystick-like controls. ---more at original post http://www.hollandsentinel.com/news/x1213312095/Aerial-camera-to-give-new-Tulip-Time-parade-perspective ---
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“One... four… seven…” The Littleton Cable TV (LCTV) station video trainee was starting with the basics. “Two … five … eight …” counted another trainee nearby to another camera. And a third intoned, “Three…six…nine…” Within a couple of hours, the new videographers had learned to set up and operate a video camera, to tape themselves counting, and then to merge their individual pieces into a cohesive whole with the numbers in the proper sequence. Thus, LCTV Executive Director Mark Crory recently completed two more evening sessions teaching interested residents how to shoot video and to edit for effective viewing. He offers this training several times a year, and residents have embraced it for a variety of reasons. --- more at original post http://www.wickedlocal.com/littleton/features/x1716633524/Littleton-Cable-Pupils-plan-new-shows ---
Does your local news station cover everything except local news? Maybe it's time to ask your cable provider about public access to help your community showcase itself. Several years ago I heard someone say that "Public Access Television isn't real television!" Upon hearing a statement like that, all I could do was smile and walk the other way, because in my heart I knew that real TV is about my neighbors, my local government, my children's school, after school activities, and the interesting folks I have met and their friends. I truly believe that any interesting story has the potential to be compelling and real TV. --- more at original post http://www.videomaker.com/article/15677-life-at-a-community-access-station ---
Illinois' cable franchise law renewal was in the mash up of bills hitting the floor during the final week of the session in Springfield. Both the House and Senate voted to approve a two-year extension of the amended Cable and Video Competition Act (the Illinois Cable Act) to July of 2015. The bill represents a mixed outcome for the public. The good news is that the state rejected an attempt by the Cable Television and Communications Association of Illinois (CT&C) to obtain sweeping changes to the law that would have impaired municipal authority and wreaked havoc on the state's public, educational and government (PEG) access channels. PEG channels provide thousands of hours of programming statewide on education, arts, economic development, public safety and civic engagement. The bad news is the lack of enforcement or legislation to rectify AT&T's failure to meet the equivalency standard in the law for PEG channels. --- more at original post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barbara-popovic/illinois-state-cable-bill_b_3369170.html ---
An unusually public dispute between two Republican state legislators that erupted last week has its roots in, of all things, a national debate over city-owned broadband systems. The feud provides a window into how campaign contributions are used for influence in Raleigh, how outside organizations help craft legislation, and how General Assembly leaders can exert their power when challenged. At issue is a 2011 North Carolina law that limited government-owned cable operations such as MI-Connection in Mooresville and Davidson. The legislation was vocally backed by telecommunications companies such as Time Warner Cable, who argued the government shouldn’t compete with the private sector. North Carolina was the 19th state to pass such a law and its passage was preceded by a deluge of campaign contributions, according to a nonpartisan group that tracks political money. The issue gained attention last week when Mooresville Rep. Robert Brawley publicly aired his dispute with House Speaker Thom Tillis, a Republican from nearby Cornelius. In a letter read on the House floor, Brawley complained that Tillis had blocked a bill he had introduced that would have expanded the territory of MI-Connection. Tillis, he said, cited a “business relationship” with Time Warner Cable. Tillis and Time Warner have denied any relationship. But the feud has put a spotlight on the campaign money the speaker, who is expected on Friday to announce his bid for the U.S. Senate, has received from Time Warner and other telecommunications companies as he rose to his powerful perch. --- more at original post http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/05/30/4076665/tillis-brawley-spat-rooted-in.html#.UaiWGE_aIDY.twitter ;
Princeton Community TV, the public access channel that has been in the old Valley Road School for the past eight years, will move its production and broadcast operation into the former Borough Hall, perhaps by the end of the week.
The station’s board in February accepted an offer from the municipality for the space, as the station has known that its lease to use the school was not going to be renewed. Files have been packed up and the studio was closed anticipating the move across town.
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The cable access TV station in the city of Erie is facing an uncertain financial future under a new deal that Erie City Council is considering. Community Access Television, which produces shows on Channel 2 on Time Warner Cable, would stop receiving guaranteed annual funding through the city's franchise agreement with Time Warner. City Council is expected to put the proposal up for public inspection on June 5 and hold a public hearing two weeks later. --- more at original post http://www.goerie.com/funding-fuzzy-for-erie-cable-access-channel ---
Greenburgh's public access television channel is airing non-stop interviews with nearly 100 U.S. military veterans through Monday as the town celebrates Memorial Day. The interviews capture the poignant and often tearful reflections of World War II by the Greenburgh residents, some of whom have passed away since filming of the interviews began four years ago. Alan Hochberg and Steve Wittenberg headed up the project to capture the stories of local veterans in the interviews which took nearly four years to compile. The work can be seen on Verizon channel 35 and Cablevision 75. more at original post http://greenburgh.dailyvoice.com/news/greenburgh-veterans-featured-local-tv-all-memorial-day-weekend ---
When Alisa Sizemore was a hotel manager in Myrtle Beach, S.C., telling folks about what was happening in the area was a breeze. Tell them to turn on Beach TV in their rooms. An area native back in the Tri-State after 17 years in South Carolina, Sizemore, the general manager at the Super 8 on 16th Street Road in Huntington, is happy that telling hotel guests about local tourism hot spots is still a breeze. Super 8 is the latest hotel to offer the Cabell Huntington Convention and Visitors Bureau's tourism channel CVBTV, a continuously looped channel of Trifecta Productions' tourism videos, local weather and information. In addition to the Tri-State Airport, CVB-TV will be seen in more than 1,500 hotel rooms by the time the latest hotel, Hampton Inn and Suites at KineticPark, is opened this summer, as well as on local public access channels. --- more at original post http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Cabell-County-tourism-channel-expanding-4529164.php#ixzz2UDruFQww ---
For viewers this summer, gavel-to-gavel coverage of Island government meetings, high school sports and an eclectic array of original programming may appear unchanged on Martha’s Vineyard Television. But for the people behind the cameras and the scenes at the Island’s only public access television station, huge change is in the offing as the station prepares to move to a new facility that is nearly complete off the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road. “It’s a total upgrade for us,” station manager Stephen Warriner said at the new building this week. “This is the right size for this community for right now. We don’t have to use our studio as a meeting room and a classroom . . . it’s going to allow us to do a lot more. It’s going to allow us to have a proper space for the first time.” The new 4,000-square-foot facility includes three studios, editing rooms, offices, a control room, storage and two bathrooms. For the past 10 years MVTV has operated out of a 1,350-square-foot building at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School. The lease with the school district ends this year.
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When veterans' advocate Ralph Calabrese steps into the television studio today at Finger Lakes Community College, it will be for the last time. The Korean War veteran started his public-access program, “VA and Veterans Update with Ralph Calabrese,” in 2003 when the Canandaigua VA Medical Center was threatened with closure. “There was so much that aired on that, and it was instrumental in getting thousands of signatures on petitions when we were fighting for the VA,” said Calabrese. The Canandaigua resident, whose program has aired twice weekly on public-access Finger Lakes Television for a decade, said he celebrated his 84th birthday in March. --- more at original post http://www.mpnnow.com/topstories/x1552441516/One-last-Veterans-Update-for-Calabrese ---
Wilmington City Council members continue to discuss bringing back a public access channel to our area. Both the City of Wilmington and New Hanover County provide local programming, but neither of them include a public access channel. At the request of some advocacy groups, city staff researched the possibility of a public access channel. Council members discussed the proposed channel during their agenda briefing this morning. --- more at otiginal post http://www.wwaytv3.com/2013/05/06/wilmington-city-council-discusses-public-access-tv-channel ---
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