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Time to end subsidies for cable public access channels
Milwaukee Small Business Times – Milwaukee,WI,USA
But the only interests that lawmakers ought to protect are those of consumers, who would benefit greatly from competition in video services. …
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Camp teaches kids how to be filmmakers (see video from campers)
IdahoStatesman.com – ID,USA
Four teams — two are all-boys, two are all-girls — are crammed into the public access television station’s three editing bays. One team, all boys, …
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Starring…. You! Me! Us!
Northborough-Southborough Villager – Marlboro,MA,USA
These funds are to be used only for public access TV. The town can’t spend them for any other purpose. So far about $30000 has been spent for equipment and …
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Tim Buckley 101: New DVD Inspires Comprehensive Look at Jeff’s Dad
NadaMucho.com – Seattle,WA,USA
The performance of “Venice Beach (Music Boats by the Bay)” from the LA public access show Boboquivari, shows Tim using his voice and his band to create a …
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twofer twofer twofer
By Milo George(Milo George)
The only thing that could improve it would be a complete archive of the GREG public-access and Independent Film Channel material. IDIOCRACY Mike Judge’s animated work hasn’t rocked my world since around my 18th birthday, but I couldn’t …
The Unofficial John Westmoreland… – http://milogeorge.blogspot.com/

Michigan Klan Member to Speak at Kalamazoo White Supremacist Event
By Media Mouse(Media Mouse)
Gray spoke on the use of public access television as a recruiting and organizing tool for the white supremacist movement. Since 2005, Gray has filed the paperwork necessary to air the program “This is the Klan” on Midland Community …
Media Mouse: Grand Rapids, Michigan… – http://www.mediamouse.org/

TV Consumers Get A Choice
Hartford Courant – United States
Certification subjects the new player to most of the same regulations that govern cable, including the obligation to offer public access, educational and …
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Firm goes green on screen
Asheville Citizen-Times – NC,USA
… Asheville’s public access television channel. Now Booth hopes to spread the message of sustainable living through the Green Video Network, which brings …
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VIDEO: Presidential Candidates
By Malatron(Malatron)
Each city and each ‘media market’ will have at least two public access channels on radio, broadcast television, cable, AND satellite! Election day will be a paid holiday.” He just won your vote, didn’t he? …
A Blog Soup – http://ablogsoup.blogspot.com/

Medfield Mosaic Promo
The Medfield Mosaic is an evolving project comprised of short video work by, for and about the town of Medfield . It is a space on Medfield’s public access television channel created specifically for community collaboration. …
- blip.tv (beta) – http://blip.tv

To Col David Hughes, Iowa
By Jon
A cheap desktop computer loaded with freely available audio and video software from Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, will enable anyone to create high quality public access tv and radio shows. …
p2pnet.net – the original daily… – http://www.p2pnet.net

Someone Please Help Andrew Maylor
By Ed in Swampscott(Ed in Swampscott)
Not that I have any special video expertise besides owning my own video camera and computer with Adobe Premier editing software on it, but I’m reluctant to offer my limited video skills to help a system that denies the public access to …
Help Bring Public Access TV Back… – http://freespeechinswampscott.blogspot.com/

Quick reads
Kalamazoo Gazette – Kalamazoo,MI,USA
The Portage Public Schools Board of Education will now only have one of its monthly meetings broadcast on public-access cable television. …
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Podcast-
By Michelle Waters
… the publishing of audio or video files to the internet. The files are referred to as “podcasts” or “shows” and are similar to talk radio programs or public access television shows. People who create podcasts are called “podcasters. …
Product Sellers Talk Radio – http://michellewatersonline.com

Breakfast Links: July 17, 2007
Spencer Black (D-Madison) raised concerns today that a video deregulation legislative proposal would weaken consumer protection, eliminate public access broadcasting and lead to massive utility cabinets that could be placed in …
Dane101 – The collaborative blog… – http://www.dane101.com

Federal judge leaps into the Internet age
Reading Eagle – Reading,PA,USA
No cameras — still or video — no tape recorders, no laptop computers and no cell phones could be used in a federal court. This despite the fact that …
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Sluts Unite!
Bay Area Indymedia – San Francisco,CA,USA
But they have the best funded public access TV station. Tucson Community Cable Corporation was running it and they had great funding they managed to get …
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Bending a nintendo on public access TV
By casper
Here’sa nintendo bending “tutorial” I did for a public access station in CT. I’m not sure how informative it really is though. The most interesting part is at the end of the video where I show the effect of using a potentiometer to …
casperelectronics.com – http://www.casperelectronics.com

Circuit Bending a Nintendo with Pete
By circuitmaster
Pete demonstrates various methods for bending the NES system and goes into types distortions possible and the bending points like the Cart slot and the video IC. Very informative. The video was filmed for a Public Access TV station in …
GetLoFi – “bent bent bent Circuit… – http://www.getlofi.com

Moving Images: Digitzation for Access
By Peter Brantley
As we expand educational and scholarly access to archival moving images, we are conscious that our film and video holdings are of great interest both to the public and to the media community. Many of us have unexpectedly become small, …
O’Reilly Radar – http://radar.oreilly.com/

THE FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL, VOLUME 2 (DVD)
Film Threat – Los Angeles,CA,USA
Before “Star Search” or “American Idol,” there was public access‘ own “Stairway to Stardom, featuring the motliest crew of comedically awful singers, …
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Big Whoopee Show”
By Jeff Cohen(Jeff Cohen)
First and foremost, there’s Warner Home Video’s 80th Anniversary 3-Disc Edition of “The Jazz Singer,” which will sport so many dazzling accompanying features that to rattle them off is pointless when you can read all about it for …
= VITAPHONE VARIETIES = – http://vitaphone.blogspot.com/

Media Literacy 2.0: Facebook
By John Bell
“In 1981, the Paper Tiger Television Collective formed–a changing group of people that came together to produce cable programming for the public access channel in New York City. Drawing upon the traditions of radical video, …
Digital Influence Mapping Project – http://johnbell.typepad.com/weblog/

“Child protective services”
By rss@LiveVideo.com (matthewsAndTynes)
This shows the problems without Child protective services. Author: matthewsAndTynes Keywords: Suck TV public access Added: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 01:23:27 GMT. Video codes to display this video on your website! <table border=0 cellpadding=0 …
livevideo :: Newest Videos – http://www.livevideo.com

A new competitor in cable TV
Gainesville Sun – Gainesville,FL,USA
Its critics said they doubted those claims, adding that it removed local control to protect consumers and to negotiate public access programming. …
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TeleTruth Wisconsin Created to Oppose AT&T’s Bill
By paul soglin
Kaminski also said the bill threatens the viability of public access television stations, which are extremely important public education tools. “Anything that threatens to gut funding from a public forum such as public access channels …
Paul Soglin: Waxing America – http://www.waxingamerica.com/

State, not FCC, should regulate providers’ franchise agreements
Patriot-News – Harrisburg,PA,USA
This gives municipalities protection of their rights of way, and through the years many have negotiated public access channels and other community services …
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Cable competition may force Greenwich TV to work harder
Greenwich Post – Greenwich,CT,USA
GCTV is part of the Area 9 Cable Council, which includes other public access channels from different municipalities that would also have to negotiate deals …
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Communities & Technologies 2007: Socializing and Sociologizing on …
By Joe McCarthy
Liezl Lambrecht Coetzee (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) started the session with a spirited presentation on “World Wide Webs: Crossing the Digital Divide through promotion of Public Access“, in which she noted that the Web …
Gumption – http://gumption.typepad.com/blog/

Publicity tips/’Your Usual, Mr. Smith?’ February 27, 2007
By Alexandra Herbert
“I need help with distribution of video/TV public service announcements I just produced for Optimist International (at very little cost, I might add). “I know how to personally approach local media, the public access channels and the …
Alexandra Herbert – http://alexandraqdm.wordpress.com

Touch that dial
The Independent Weekly – Durham,NC,USA
Where the video act removed all barriers and expectations for private companies seeking to enter the television business, HB 1587, the so-called Local …
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New coalition aligns in effort to squash controversial cable bill
The Capital Times – Madison,WI,USA
Kaminski also said the bill threatens the viability of public access television stations, which are extremely important public education tools. …
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County streams meetings on the Web
Hagerstown Morning Herald – Hagerstown,MD,USA
Some commissioners have pushed hard for meetings to be shown on public-access cable television, as the meetings for the City of Hagerstown and the …
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PEG Access TV, MySpace and Social Networks
By Colin Rhinesmith
But, lots of activity from lots of Public Access TV stations on MySpace? Now, that’s really interesting. Why would a cable access TV station join a social networking site? I have an idea. But, I’d definitely like to know more. …
Community Media in Transition – http://cmediachange.net/blog

County to begin Webcasting commission meetings
By Heath Haussamen(Heath Haussamen)
The city broadcasts meetings live on its public access channel and its Web site, and also archives meetings for later viewing on the Web site. The Las Cruces Public Schools broadcasts meetings on the city’s television station, …
Heath Haussamen on New Mexico Politics – http://haussamen.blogspot.com/

Come On Down! Free CCTV Orientation this Thursday
By Eli
Learn how you can produce your own television show, documentary video, podcast or videoblog. This is a chance to learn about public access television, CCTV member privileges and available resources, and meet others interested in …
Cambridge Community Television… – http://www.cctvcambridge.org

Community Media 2.0
By skyatcat
Now we are planning our communications strategy. Traditional communication strategies – public events, press releases, public access programs – are now amplified by web 2.0 tools. We are implementing e-newsletters, video blogs, …
catfayetteville.com Blog – http://catfayetteville.com/blog

Better than the Food Network: Public Access Cooking Show
This video is the holy grail brain bomb of public access television. So much so that you need to watch it all in complete silence, possibly more than once, to really pick up on every subtle and bizarre nuance. It could use a commentary …
Food Network – http://www.rssmicro.com/?f=1&q=Food+Network

UFO Archive…..Brazilian Aircraft encounter, 1986
By dandare
This came about after pressure was placed on them from a team of Brazilian experts, who insisted on public access to this information. Among these individuals was AJ Gevaerd who is familiar with The Academy’s work and information.” …
UFO Online by dandare – http://dandare.wordpress.com

Offbeat filmmaker Gary Davis: Local director makes good
Palm Beach Post – FL, United States
Davis has also hosted his own shows on local public-access stations – he describes them a being an urban version of Entertainment Tonight – and has made …
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Public access television goth poetry: The Line of the Ride…the …
By Matt Staggs(Matt Staggs)
Check out the fat chick in this video – she looks like The Onion’s Jean Teasdale. Schadenfreude at its finest, folks. Tee-heee-heee… “…stupid…” Tags: the line of the ride, the murder ride, murder, goth, poetry, jean teasdale, …
www.skullring.org – http://mattstaggs.blogspot.com/

Juniors League: W. Paul Helmke, Jr. and Jesse Jackson, Jr. on the …
By Administrator
Federal data on the sources of guns recovered in crimes, released before Congress blocked public access to such data at the request of the gun industry, shows that between 1996 and 2000 Suburban sold more than 700 guns traced to crime. …
Fort Wayne Observed – http://indiana.typepad.com/fwob/

Seymour selectman gives in to video
Connecticut Post – Bridgeport,CT,USA
… the back of the room, was imposed after a handful of complaints about Frank Loda, a local resident who videotapes meetings for public access television. …
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Arrest in Chandler break-in could solve 100s of cases
East Valley Tribune – Mesa,AZ,USA
… video of a burglar breaking into a business has aired over and over on “Chandler’s Most Wanted,” a show on the city’s public access television station. …
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Give TV Consumers A Choice
Hartford Courant – United States
Mrs. Rell’s signature would open the marketplace to AT&T, whose method of delivering television service through telephone lines was determined last year to …
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CAIR: Destroying Free Speech One Extortion at a Time?
Blogger News Network – USA
CAIR even tried to get public access to the Flying Imams case blocked. What does that mean? They wanted to muzzle the press and block them from being able …
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Summary of state impeachment activities by Tom Barnard
By eridani
His previous civic activity had included starting a progressive public access television show called “Moral Politics.” With a business and civic pedigree like that, he was perfect for the job, running as one of the new crop of Democrats …
Washblog – Diaries – http://www.washblog.com/

Community Media: Selected Clippings – 07/03/07
By Rob McCausland
“The FCC is making a significant effort to weaken the leverage of local governments when negotiating cable TV franchises,” town Public Access Committee member David Lent said. –> …
Clippings for PEG Access Television – http://rghm.wordpress.com

Cable bill foes irked at being listed as backers
Wisconsin State Journal – Madison,WI,USA
But opponents say the bills would reduce consumer protections, limit funding for public access channels and give the state and local governments little …
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The Roundup for Tuesday, July 3rd
Their every move is monitored by four closed-circuit video cameras.” “Despite convincing state lawmakers last week that permitting public access to police disciplinary files would endanger lives, law enforcement advocacy groups have …
The Roundup – http://www.capitolbasement.com

New Bedford Cable Access wins national competition
SouthCoastToday.com – New Bedford,MA,USA
The 2007 Hometown Video Awards are sponsored by the Alliance for Community Media, an organization committed to assuring public access to electronic media. …
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Internet & Society 2007 Video Channels
By colinrhinesmith
We’re working on the mpeg2 files for University Channel so folks at Public Access TV centers and other noncommercial channels can download them for broadcast. For the complete conference audio and video archives, please visit the Media …
Colin Rhinesmith – http://colinrhinesmith.com

NYSDOT and Time Warner Announce New Traffic Channel
readMedia (press release) – Albany,NY,USA
Headquartered in New York City, Time Warner Cable has 14.7 million customers for its various products, including video, high-speed data and residential …
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Film student tackles the Holy Land
Boonville Daily News – MO, USA
The documentary will give insight into the historical roots of Christianity in Israel and will air on Chicago PBS and Public Access Channels in the Midwest. …
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Community Media: Selected Clippings – 06/30/07
By Rob McCausland
Not everyone has access to cable or public access television. And don’t forget to archive all those meetings.” –> http://www.pegasusnews.com/news/2007/jun/30/open-letter-tom-leppert/ ~. Ministries Aren’t Just for the Big Names Anymore …
Clippings for PEG Access Television – http://rghm.wordpress.com

Under NFL Rule, Media Web Sites Are Given Just 45 Seconds to Score
By MacRonin
The policy, announced last month with little fanfare, has frustrated journalists, who say it constricts the public’s access to information about the nation’s most popular spectator sport. A coalition of news organizations has been …
Privacy Digest – News that can… – http://www.privacydigest.com

Jessica Simpson’s Career Issues
By M.C.(M.C.)
A Spike TV release. Public access. Jess will just end up performing scenes from it on street-corners while people stuff dollar bills into her g-string. And Papa Joe will be there with a video camera and a drool-cloth. (source)
Crabbie’s Hollywood – http://crabbieshollywood.blogspot.com/