Archive for January, 2008
Exploring The Perceptions of Public Access Television
In beginning my thesis this semester to investigate the role of Public Access Television in the Age of YouTube, I’m beginning to shift my approach, once again. Previously, I explored the role of the community media center in the process of public access television. I realized that this is just one of the [...]
Free Press Action Network Live Blogging Tomorrow’s Hearing on PEG TV in the Digital Age
The Free Press Action Network has announced that it’s members will blog tomorrow’s Congressional Hearing on Public, Educational, and Governmental (PEG) Services in the Digital TV Age. Here are the details below from the website:
“On Tuesday, Jan. 29, the Free Press Action Network will hold a live-blogging session during the congressional hearing on Public, Educational, [...]
The Local AND Global in Public Access Media
A few of my co-workers and I had an interesting discussion this week about how best to use our external online presence, on sites such as MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, and blip.tv. We talked about sharing local information relevant to the community we serve on a platform available to the world for those with access [...]
Ojai Valley News Blog on Public Access TV in CA
Ojai Valley News Blog reports on AB 2987, the Digital Infrastructure and Competition Act of 2006, and its potential impact on public access television in the state of California.
“Bill Rosendahl, former CEO of Southern California Adelphia, Ojai’s cable provider before Time Warner and present Los Angeles councilman, said that Time Warner would probably toss out [...]
Texas Community Media Summit Website
The Texas Community Media Summit is taking place on March 1 this year at UT at Austin. The website explains that the Summit will take place with the purpose of:
• “Understanding and knowledge of the Texas community media landscape
• Inclusion of ethnic, social and cultural diversity in community media
• Collaboration and partnerships among Texas community [...]
Digital Cable and Public Access TV: Part II
Yesterday, Harold Feld blogged about what the lawsuit in Michigan might mean in the future for other states’ dealings between PEG channels and cable operators. In particular, whether PEG channels will continue to be included in the “basic tier” of channel package options offered by digital cable providers. Feld also raises the question of [...]
Digital Cable and Public Access TV?
In February 2009, all analog television sets will go dark. Those who don’t have a digital converter box at that time won’t be able to watch television . . . period. But what does the digital television transition mean for the future of public access TV?
The answer might lie somewhere right now in [...]
AJC.com Article on YouTube and Public Access TV
As readers of this blog know, I’ve been tracking some of the online narratives surrounding public access television production in an age when YouTube and other video sharing websites have grown in popularity. This week, thanks again to Clippings for PEG Access Television, I found another article at AJC.com particularly troubling in the lack of [...]
Audio Documentary on Community Media in the YouTube Age
For his graduate audio production course at Emerson College, my fellow grad student and CCTV colleague John Donovan (above) sat down with staff and members at Cambridge Community Television to find out “why community media still matters” in a YouTube age.
In this 11-minute podcast, John first spoke with members of the staff who told him [...]
Thesis: Phase II
It’s a new year and my last semester, and another chapter (not quite literally . . . yet) begins for this project.
Lots has changed since my initial explorations began in earnest last semester. Most notably, I began to shift my thinking from broadcast cable access television and Internet video distribution to the role of the [...]
