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).

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CONSIDER THIS: Public access is seen as out-of-date, but one of the key things about public access is that it isn't really just access -- it's also education.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