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 Public-access television - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Public Access Television is intended for private citizens from the contracted municpality to distribute local and community initiated programming and content.
Public access organizations have often adopted more action-oriented roles in their respective communities to serve as possibly one of the last venues for local and community oriented programming to be seen and heard.
Cable Access Television is a general term covering the arrangements made between US cable television companies and contracted municipalities to provide their communities with the means to use the cable infrastructure to distribute locally produced content.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Public_access_television   (1284 words)

  
 THE HISTORY OF PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION
According to Engelman, public access in New York was conceived in 1968 by Fred Friendly, a television advisor to the Ford Foundation and chairman of Mayor John Lindsay's Advisory Task Force on CATV and Telecommunications.
Public access TV, also called cable access, community access, community television, and PEG (Public, Education and Government), is a system that provides television production equipment, training and airtime on a local cable channel, so members of the public can produce their own shows and televise them to a mass audience.
Public access television is not at all restricted to the United States and Canada.
www.geocities.com /iconostar/history-public-access-TV.html   (3376 words)

  
 Access Television - Where and Why
Public Access: The availability of television or radio broadcast facilities, as provided by law, for use by the public for presentation of programs, as those of community interest.
Access television in Sweden will have a go because Swedish cities are too small for any local commercial TV operation.
But in general the idea of access television is not to become depend upon commercial financing.
www.openchannel.se /cat/accesstv.htm   (945 words)

  
 access and democracy; 1991 Alternative Views: Public Access Television by Douglas Kellner
Consequently, the costs of producing video tapes for public access is not necessarily prohibitive, and groups who want to explore the possibilities of producing alternative television should look into the availability of equipment in their area, or the costs of buying their own tapes and equipment.
In these situations, radicals can make use of public access facilities without technical expertise, television experience, or financial resources.
Despite either the absence of public access or obstacles to its use in some parts of the country, where it exists it provides the one opening in the commercial and state broadcasting systems that is at least potentially open for Left intervention.
www.gseis.ucla.edu /courses/ed253a/MCkellner/ACCESS.html   (4422 words)

  
 Public Access Television - Q&A
Started in the 1960s, public access is a television center/channel provided through cable companies, supported by federal law and municipal government, and available to the community to express their opinions and views.
Since public access television centers are non-profit organizations supported by funds from the cable companies as well as private and public sources, they are able to offer equipment and classes for very little cost to members.
Public access was created to provide everyone with the tools to make community television and the training to use those tools.
www.access-scat.org /mapped/questions.htm   (805 words)

  
 Welcome to PATV, Inc.
Public Access Television’s Open Channel is the soapbox of the electronic town square.
Welcome to PATV, Public Access Television, serving the Iowa City and Coralville community for over fifteen years.
Our mission is to offer the public the tools, training, and assistance needed to use the medium of television as a forum for expressing the diversity of views, interests, and backgrounds in our community.
www.patv.tv   (172 words)

  
 Broadcasting on Public Access TV
Most public access TV stations run programs that are at 28 or 58 minutes in length, but the tapes can be longer and the station will simply stop the tape when the time limit is reached.
Public Access TV The Northwest Creation Network broadcasts creation videos regularly on Seattle Community Access Network (SCAN) on cable channel 77/29.
There are 357 public access TV stations in the United States.
www.nwcreation.net /publicaccesstv.html   (686 words)

  
 public access television in Massachusetts
In 1972, and again in 1982, community activitists in Somerville, Massachusetts were some of the first in the country to organize for public access to the telecommunications infrastructure and develop independent non-profit management for cable access.
Bolstered and educated by their success, these access leaders assisted other cities and towns to mobilize and negogiate cable agreements that provided for public, educational, and government access.
Massachusetts access centers are so dense that they are able to collaborate and work together for support, training, and furthering public policy initiatives.
www.access-scat.org /aboutus/tour/step3.htm   (96 words)

  
 Gillette Public Access Television
Gillette Public Access Television brings government and local programming to the people and provides the opportunity to individuals within the community to communicate ideas on public, educational, and governmental issues.
Gillette Public Access TV Public, Education, and Governmental (PEG) TV Channels 31, 36, and 55
Annual memberships are a great way to provide support to your local access television studio.
www.ci.gillette.wy.us /gpa   (133 words)

  
 Public Access Community Television
Public Access Community Television, or PACT, is a new and completely different non-profit corporation responsible for managing public access cable TV channels 10, 11, and 16.
Villarreal resigned in December 2004 and the Austin Community Access Center – known both as ACAC and ACTV – has had nothing to do with Austin’s public access television channels since it lost the City’s contract in September 2005.
Together PACT’s Executive Director Linda Litowsky and General Manager Garry Wilkison bring to the public access center decades of knowledge in both the creative and technical aspects of television production.
austinpact.org   (676 words)

  
 Leominster Public Access television
The mission of Leominster Access Television is to strengthen our community by using public access television to: facilitate the sharing of information, enhance community dialogue, encourage individual and artistic expression, create an awareness of local interests, views and cultures, provide a vehicle for collaborative problem-solving, and promote community involvement
The LTC operates Leominster Access Television (LATV) which oversees the PEG (public, educational and government) access channels on the cable television system in Leominster, Massachusetts.
Unlike broadcast television, public access programming reflects the diversity, interests and viewpoints of people in a given community– because it’s created by people in the community.
www.leominster.tv /about.htm   (1033 words)

  
 Open Directory - Arts: Television: Cable Television: Public Access
DCTV - Davis Community Television is a non-profit, membership-based public access television center offering community members the tools and training to produce their own programs for the cable channel located in Davis, California.
TCTV - A public access cable channel available to the residents of Torrance, California that provides the equipment, facilities, training and support free-of-charge to Torrance residents so that they can produce and cablecast their own cable television shows.
Mid-Coast Television - MCTV is a non-profit community access television station serving the coast in San Mateo County, California.
dmoz.org /Arts/Television/Cable_Television/Public_Access   (1339 words)

  
 Public Access Television - PEG Channels
Thurston Community Television- TCTV is a 501(c)(3) non-profit under contract to Olympia, Lacey, Tumwater, and Thurston County to provide public educational and governmental access resources the greater Thurston County area.
SCAN operates public access television on cable channels 77 and 29 in most of King and parts of Snohomish County.
Mid Valley Television - MVTV is owned and operated by the Cities of Toppenish, Wapato, Zillah and Granger as a public cable access facility.
www.mrsc.org /Subjects/Telecomm/PEG.aspx   (1097 words)

  
 Villainy, Inc. Maryland Public Television
If a computer is not available in the home, plan regular visits to a public library or community learning center where access is available.
If you have access to the Internet, there are many helpful websites that provide guidance, resources, or information not readily available in most homes.
Provides access to an enlarged version of a comprehensive reference book by the same title, including more than 120 additional printed pages of material.
villainyinc.thinkport.org /families/help.asp   (1747 words)

  
 Public access - The GLOBAL VILLAGE CAT, Access Television Worldwide Links
Jeff Garland's overview of public access TV and cable regulation in the state of Hawai'i.
This Act may be cited as the `Public Access to Science Act'.
Even so, public access TV can be an important outlet for the interests of underserved It started at the public access channel of Saint Paul, Minnesota,
kiosk.allinfosites.com /q/kiosk-public-access.htm   (682 words)

  
 ::RTV, a Citizen's Network::
It is thanks to such a legacy of continuous struggle on the part of the citizenry that RTV finally was able to begin its broadcasting as a nationwide public access channel.
17/5/2004 Under a new programming, public access programs are significantly increased and new NGO programs are created, thus further strengthening citizen participation.
Our opening day programs included a documentary obtained from young video journalists in Asia, and we are currently preparing to build ties with public access channels around the world.
www.rtv.or.kr /eng/info/english.jsp   (1157 words)

  
 Public-access TV gains cachet ... and new viewers csmonitor.com
Morman's quirky success story illustrates a larger trend: While most of public-access television is dominated by broadcasts of poorly miked zoning-board hearings and the kind of kooky, basement-produced shows that inspired the movie "Wayne's World," several channels are displaying a new degree of professionalism.
While Neilson, the TV ratings corporation, doesn't study ratings for cable-access channels, experts say there is anecdotal evidence to suggest that overall viewership of public-access television is up.
Cities are not required to have a public-access television station.
www.csmonitor.com /2002/0102/p1s4-usgn.html   (1514 words)

  
 ESPN Outdoors -- Cayuta thick with public access, browns
Access to Cayuta is largely off Routes 224 and 34.
The lower portions are too warm for trout and the water governed by public fishing rights ends about 2 miles south of Van Etten.
Public fishing begins at the Chemung County line.
www.espn.go.com /outdoors/fishing/s/f_map_05_NY_Cayuta_Creek.html   (1240 words)

  
 Quote... Unquote, Inc. Homepage
QUQ promotes the use of Public Access Television as an electronic forum for free expression, discussing issues, and solving problems.
Unquote, Inc. is to operate a Public Access Media Center to enhance and facilitate communication by, for and among the diverse people of Albuquerque.
Developing and promoting the concept of public acess to existing and
www.quote-unquote.org   (218 words)

  
 Public Access Television
Public access consistently gets 1% or more of the audience and often it's the best thing on daytime television.
Cable television has what are called public access channels.
So, in the L.A. area and mostly around the country, there are huge opportunities for public access, government access and educational access television.
www.change-links.org /media.html   (672 words)

  
 Prison Planet Activist Center
Below is an extensive list of public access TV stations across the USA, for those in other countries check your local press for details.
Washington Public Access Corporation of the District of Columbia
Battle Creek AccessVision Battle Creek Area Community Television
www.prisonplanet.com /Pages/activist_access_tv.html   (564 words)

  
 Persistence of Vision
Relating to public access television services, whether the department should seek an exemption from the requirement that those services be procured through a competitive bid process and, if not, what requirements the department should include in any request for proposal.
The PUBLIC of Public Access Television should be included in this process, and be empowered to create and manage a facility that has the PUBLIC'S interest in mind,and not the greedy, self centered staff, Executive Directors and Board of Directors that dont give a rip about the public.
DCCA PUBLIC MEETINGS- Relating to public access television services, whether the department should seek an exemption from the requirement that those services be procured through a competitive bid process and, if not, what requirements the department should include in any request for proposal.
www.kauai.net /ctpa   (11253 words)

  
 ACM: Producing Public Access Television
Churches, synagogues, youth groups, Chambers of Commerce, civic organizations, political groups, and cultural communities of every kind are already using public access television.
Your community may only have what is called "governmental access television" which only provides coverage of the government itself.
When you call your public access center, ask for their schedule of training classes, fees, and membership information.
www.alliancecm.org /index.php?page_id=15   (522 words)

  
 DATV - Dayton Access Television: Public Access Television in Dayton, Ohio
Public Access Television for the community of Dayton, Ohio.
DATV - Dayton Access Television: Public Access Television in Dayton, Ohio
Copyright 2006, Dayton Access Television, All Rights Reserved.
www.datv.org   (62 words)

  
 weho: Public Access Television
The Public Access Reference Desk compiles information here that is useful for access producers, access staff or board members, government officials, reporters, or other interested...
West Hollywood Public Access, a service of the Public Information/CATV Division of the City of West Hollywood, runs a community video production program (training and equipment access) and programs and operates Channel 36 on Adelphia Cable in West Hollywood, both available exclusively to residents of the City of West Hollywood.
The West Hollywood Public Access office is open from 4:30 p.m.
www.weho.org /index.cfm/fuseaction/nav/navid/50   (265 words)

  
 ACM: Home Page
Video franchise agreements are also the only mechanism that protects and ensures the existence of local Public, Educational and Governmental (PEG) Access TV channels and centers.
The Alliance advances this goal through public education, a progressive legislative and regulatory agenda, coalition building and grassroots organizing.
However local video franchising agreements are the mechanism by which municipalities ensure that cable and telecommunications companies doing business within the community are accountable to the local public interest.
www.alliancecm.org   (248 words)

  
 public-access television
one or more channels on cable television that by law are reserved for noncommercial broadcasting by members of the public.
a noncommercial system of broadcasting on television channels made available to independent or community groups for programs of general interest to the community.
www.infoplease.com /dictionary/public-access+television   (60 words)

  
 Alabama Public Television Teachers Page
In June 2005, Mueller joined Alabama Public Television Education Specialist Libby Davis at the Alabama Educational Technology Conference to share her ideas and experiences with other educators who are interested in utilizing APTPLUS in their classroom instruction.
Alabama Public Television’s free digital resource library for teachers – APTPLUS – has entered its third year of service for Alabama teachers.
Mueller also uses a big screen television with a special card connected to a computer.
www.aptv.org /Learning/APTPlus/testimony.asp   (628 words)

  
 Gangaji on Public Access Television
Hosting Public access in your area is an incredible way to introduce Gangaji to your home town.
The Public Access Program of the Gangaji Foundation creates programs that you as a community member can take to your cable company and get shown.
A large one-time donation jump-started the whole program, along with the purchase and rental fees gifted by public access hosts.
www.gangaji.org /satsang/programs/pubaccess.asp   (731 words)

  
 SCANTV
Click here for the latest cable television franchise news and SCAN's Future.
We have interesting challenges and opportunities to forge new concepts of access
www.scantv.org   (68 words)

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