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Sustainers of Community Access

7TownTV wins big in several Community Access Producer Video Festivals sponsored by ACM

Local Access Producers participate in 2009
12th Annual ACM North East Video Festivals.
Congrats to the following:


BCTV- Outstanding Achievement
PEG Access - Station under $100 K

2009 1st Place
'Community Impact' winner WPAA GS Troop #60794
Livin' Life the Right Way

2009 2nd Place 'News & Magazine Series'
winner WPAA Independent Producer, Kathryn Robinson
Creature Theater III

2009 3rd Place - 'Children and Youth'
winner WPAA GS Leader Karen Kennedy

Be Smart, Don't Start

2008 1st Place - 'Original Teleplay' winner WPAA Independent Producer, Kathryn Robinson
Deadly Access

In 2007, CACSCC provided a judging team for NE Video Fesival for categories: Work for Youth and By Youth. Judging took place Oct 17th at WPAA. The Festival was Nov. 17th in White Plains, NY.

2006 1st Place - 'Issues Talk Show'
winner Talking with Tom - Tom Dacey Producer.

2005 1st Place - 'PSA' goes to WPAA in Wallingford >>>(click here for story and to view the winning video. Video describes Public Access with clever parody of Willie Wonka)

More Recognition...

Nominate a Community Sustainer

Marvin Zimmerman accepts Promotion Award at August 2006 Meeting at BCTV.
(depicted here with John Bairos of Comast and BCTV President Margot Hardenburgh.

CACSCC visits BCTV annually in August.)







Information is the currency of democracy.
1989 Dirk Koning
(about him)

The First Amendment is the foundation upon which we build our efforts.


CACSCC 2008 Remember Our Roots campaign: Distributes framed First Amendment Poster (as shown above) to local Community Access Stations.


John Otto, President GCTV and Shannon Gale, Operations Manager at Nov. Board Meeting


Abby White, President MCAG accepts 1st Amendment Poster from CACSCC Treasurer Pete Garofalo. Comcast John Bairos participates in recognition of Madison TV.

Annual cablecast CACSCC Educational Program Events

Produced by Advisors. Carried live to all seven towns with the Comcast Router to Channel 19 from Channel 18 in Wallinford. A DVD recording is retelevised in each town.

July 2009 (7:30-8:30 PM)
Community Producing
It is Personal. It is Public.

Download Overview. Click Pic.

CACSCC provides Community Producer gift pac to local channels at July 30th Meeting at ETV.

June 26th 2008
Citizen Producers in the Blog Age Prof. Cooper Quinnipiac University is our Guest expert.

CACSCC First Educational Program Event: Considering a Community Access News program?
Some Tips from Professor News.Producing Local News - Partnerships is key!

Other Stories including COMCAST Scholarship winners.

2009 CACSCC ANNUAL REPORT

2008 CACSCC ANNUAL REPORT

2007 CACSCC ANNUAL REPORT

2006 CACSCC ANNUAL REPORT

2005 CACSCC ANNUAL REPORT

2004 CACSCC ANNUAL REPORT

Public access brings private citizens into public life. Participate.

Community Television is the media green space of our local communities in the United States

Concerned Community Television Producers@2006


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Visit your Community Access Station
Find Town-by-Town Information by selecting a town on map below.

East Haven Community Access Branford Community Access Guilford Community Access Madison Community Access North Branford Community Access North Haven Community Access Wallingford Community Access

7 Towns - 21 Community Access Channels

By, For and Of the people!
Public - Education - Government
COMCAST 18-19-20

And where available selectable at Channel 99 ATT U-verse.
Overview

Community Access is part of the communications democracy movement which is about: sharing not withholding, empowering not disenfranchising, infusing the community with tools of technology.

Some basic PEG info

Community Access Stations are 501(c)3 both Tax exempt and supporters are eligible of Tax-deductions (Tips).

The goals is to educate and provide people with tools to use a modern communications medium to meet their own communication needs, as they define them.
Andrew Blau keynote 1991
No. East bi-regional conference East Hartford, CT
Hit Pause, Then Search: Looking Forwardafter Twenty Years of Access
.
(Part of 2006 Thirty Years in review)

Public access is becoming an "industry," and as such its goals have changed. Sophisticated equipment. professional standards and concern with appealing production are changing the face of what was once a joyfully amateur medium. The pressure to build audiences and gain political support grows. Access production is viewed less as a tool for local empowerment and social change than a means toward the production of popular programming.
The Turbulent Seas of Public Access
Questia Journal article by Lauren-Glenn Davitian; Afterimage, Vol. 25, 1998

Community Access TV Deep Dive Topics

Are all Politcal Forums alike? What you should know? ______ PDF______ WORD

Should Public Access programs always be open to the Press? _____ __ position paper coming soon

Slander: Producer Policy options to protect community resources and clarify responsibilities. _______________ position paper coming soon______

CONSIDER THIS: Public access is seen as out-of-date, but one of the key things about public access is that it isn't really just access -- it's also education. Public engagement is at the heart of public access, and proponents see it as a place where a local community can gather to learn how to communicate and share ideas.
Some say
The new vision of a public-access station would be something more like a computer center, where you could go to get access to the Internet, to learn how to use online video and audio equipment, a place for the community to get together and talk. The whole point of public access is to give people a way to speak. In the '70s, cable TV was the best way to do that. Today, it's only one way of many."



2009 Community Access Stations Pending
February Annual Report Highlights 2008 below
Reports from Advisors

    NORTH HAVEN COMMUNITY TV
  • Annual Fruit Drive.
  • Launched U-verse expanding PEG program availability to ATT customers.
    BRANFORD COMMUNITY TV
  • Expanded Studio hours which did increase program production..
  • Launched U-verse expanding PEG program availability to ATT customers.
    MADISON CABLE ACCESS
  • status quo which is all good
    EAST HAVEN PUBLIC TV
  • operates in loving memory of chairman Anthony Proto, Jr. 1921-2009
  • builds conections with youth programs.
  • reorganizes to government TV
    GUILFORD COMMUNITY TV
  • GCTV has a new improved Web Site designed by our station manager Shannon Gale.
  • "Spotlight on Guilford" is a new monthly series on GCTV. It "spotlights" local non-profit orgainizations in our community.
  • GCTV has a new program designed to teach teens how to produce a TV program. This program is a joint effort with GCTV and the Guilford Free Library.
    TOTOKET TV (North Branford)
  • staff changes
  • looking for local producers
    WALLINGFORD PUBLIC ACCESS TV
  • Introduced Freeman Penny Quinn, 1st and Community Building Theme.
  • Successfully established funding is not a gift from town: Docket 080409

    As stewards of public funds, we are obligated to look at the community need first and adopt solutions second. It does not mean we cannot lead. It means that we MUST lead through responsible decision-making processes.

    Let’s focus on the people, not the tubes.
    Anthony T. Riddle Alliance for Community Media

    “TV will not die. Network television, free-to-air television will not die,” he said. “It will still be the most effective way of reaching the largest number of people in the shortest possible time at the lowest cost per thousand, but television will not have the dominance that it has had.” BUT "new media will grow in importance as a result of addressability and targeting."

    FCC Public notice released Jan. 16, 2009 Franchising authorities of local governments (our DPUC) do not have the right to regulate the basic-tier rates of cable companies coming into a new market. Regulation on the basic tier is not permitted once the FCC deems there is enough competition in a given market. [This criteria was established on March 31, 1999.]

    Alliance Internet Video Blip TV Archived Here



Click 'the CABLE COMPANY' box for more about our franchise and its Cable History and COMCAST.

The Cable Company - Comcast Branford

Formal Inquiries: 2009
Landscape Review
Policy Compare By Towns

09_01: Commercial Use_HOB
----> Overview -- SourceDoc
DPUC


09_02: PolicyAdmin_WPAA
----> Overview -- SourceDoc

09_03: Commercial Use_SFS
----> Overview -- SourceDoc

09_04: Commercial Use_SO
----> Overview -- SourceDoc

----> 01212010_responses

Formal Inquiries: 2010
10_01: Government TV_BCTV
----> Overview -- SourceDoc

10_02: Non-Profit Use of Access Channels for solicitation/sales
----> Overview -- SourceDoc

Cable and Video News

Community Access Channel changes require 30 days public notice. Changes are expected due to market competition. CACSCC will provide information here if and when changes occur.

National Watch Items
Federal Communications Commission changes can be followed at FCC Website.

Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin has filed a bill - the Community Access Preservation (CAP) Act - which if enacted would preserve and protect PEG access channels. The Alliance wholehearted endorses this bill, and will be launching a campaign to gather co-sponsors.

CACSCC gets customer letters about cable costs/rates. Satellite TV and U-verse are market competition to Comcast. Market competition means consumers have purchase options. You will get direct mail advertising from these competitors when they enter your area. Competitors are not required to provide services in all neighborhoods as is Comcast. Based on market based changes subscriber costs are not subject to regulation.

U-verse and PEG

Interconnect Agreements, Site Surveys, and Purchase decisions
What are the Tech Options for P.E.G.

Overview of Interconnect

InterconnectContract Template

U-verse and ACM

(01.30.09) Alliance for Community Media and the Alliance for Communications Democracy, in association with a number of other groups, filed a Petition for Declaratory Ruling with the FCC regarding AT&T’s handling of PEG channels on its U-Verse systems.

Copy of Press Release here and Petition here

A Great Event
November 7 2009

12th Annual Video Festival
ACM North East Region

7TownTV PEGPETIA
Click here to See Detail by Town/PEG

Wallingford $79,491
East Haven $70,351
Branford $59,379
North Haven $98,933
No. Branford No application
Guilford 44,559.47
Madison No application

COMCAST News to Use:
Bi-Annual "How to reach Advisory Councils" Notice mailed to subscribers in July 2009.

CUSTOMER SURVEY
CACSCC advisors represent consumers and constituents in the assessment of customer satisfaction Survey


SVC CORNER

Statewide Video Council for Video Providers (SVC)

Next scheduled Meeting
Jan 27th

2009 Schedule
Contact SVC at:

SVC c/o Wilton Town Hall 238 Danbury Rd Wilton CT 06897

By-Laws

03/25/09 U-verse Install Process:
ATT does not, and will not, endorse or rate encoder vendors. They provide a vendor list of equipment compatible with their network. The list is subject to change.
ATT will remiburse for certain encoders equipment (not services).
Unfortunately, Local PEG providers must rely on ATT corporate decisions, compatibility evaluation for encoder options and management of the list THEN accept full responsibility for the purchased equipment/ operation.

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