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NATOA Summer Journal
Government Access Edition
Articles and Supplemental Resources
Hi Everyone! Below are NATOA 2003 Summer Journal
on Government Access articles as well as additional resources that have been
gathered to supplement the articles. You’ll find useful forms, links, surveys
and more!
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1.
Why
Government Access?
by
Sue
Buske, President, The Buske
Group and
Bunnie Riedel,
Executive Director,
Alliance for Community Media |
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2.
I
didn't know you did that: services to make your operation
indispensable
by
Brad Clark, Station Manager,
Madison City Channel, City of Madison, WI |
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3.
Is anyone watching?
by
Robin Gee,
Cable TV Manager, CityTV, City of Santa Monica, CA with
David Korte,
President, Etrok, Jackson Hole, WY |
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4.
Generating Revenue for your government access
channel
by
Nancy Johnson,
Communications Supervisor, TV Tacoma, City of Tacoma, WA |
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5.
Is Commercial
Speech Permitted on Government Access Channels?
by
Neil Lehto,
Attorney, O’Reilly, Rancilio, Nitz, Andrews & Scott, P.C. Sterling
Heights, MI
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6.
Implementing Captioning on your government
access channel
by
Darren Doerschel,
Technical Operations Supervisor, CityTV, City of Santa Monica, CA
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7.
Spanish language
programming for PEG channels
by
Ramon Torres,
Cable Station Manager, City of Las Vegas, NV |
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8.
DC's VOD
by
Darryl Anderson,
Executive Director Office of Cable Television and
Telecommunications, Washington, D.C.
and Dan Westman |
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9.
Civic Media Build Social Capital: The
Ethics of Government Access in
the Marketplace of Ideas
by
Sean
McLaughlin, President and CEO,
Akaku, Maui Community Television
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LINKS:
Government Access TV Institute (GATV) - This web
site has some great introductory
materials for government access including FAQ, a videotape that you can
purchase,
an on-line version of “Creating A Government Access Channel” and sample
documents,
forms, guidelines and job descriptions.
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LINKS:
Links on Madison’s web site:
"Proper Handwashing Techniques" produced for Madison Public Health Dept"
Madison City Channel Production Rates
Indexed Madison Common Council meetings
Here are links
to the channels mentioned in the article:
LA Cityview
Dayton, Ohio
Torrance, CA
Rye, NY
Mentor, Ohio
Akaku, Hawaii
Santa Monica, CA
Beverly Hills, CA
Northbrook, IL
Contra Costa
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LINKS:
CCTV in Tampa, FL did a viewership survey in Fall 2001.
Here’s the survey from Oak Park, IL
Here’s some of Tacoma, WA’s data
CTN in San Diego County, CA does an on-line viewer survey.
Here’s the City and County of Denver, CO viewer survey
Here is a summary of the results from KCLV, City
of Las Vegas, NV survey
Murfreesboro, Tennessee recently conducted a viewership survey with very
positive results!
Here’s a sample survey that we’d like to suggest
that everyone use as many of these questions as is for their surveys. This way
we can more easily compare results with each other in the future. Thanks to
David Korte at Etrok for putting this together.
Here’s an article on how to conduct telephone surveys courtesy of David Korte at
Etrok.
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LINKS:
Some
examples of grants that could fit your programming needs:
Humanities
Victims Assistance Education
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LINKS:
PBS Guidelines for sponsorship messages
County of San Diego sponsorship guidelines
City of San Diego sponsorship guidelines
City of Richmond, CA advertising rate card
This is very cool, a list of links to access centers around the country that
have sponsorship or underwriting guidelines.
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LINKS:
Useful
Resources:
FCC Consumer Facts on captioning
FCC Fact Sheet on Closed Caption Implementation
The Media Access Group at WGBH has some useful information about captioning:
Sample report on options for closed captioning from Santa Monica, CA
Checklist for your captioning RFP
List of different jurisdictions, captioning vendor and rates
Hillsborough
County, Florida provides the captioning transcripts of their meetings on-line,
usually within hours of the closing gavel. Just go to
http://www.HTV22.org and click on “captioning”.
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LINKS:
Sources for
Spanish Language Programming
NASA…Destination
Tomorrow or El Destino es Mañana other programming in English also
Free available on Beta SP 5 x 26min
5 part series originally in English, overdubbed to Spanish
Contact:
Kevin Krigsvold
Education Coordinator
NASA-Langly Research Center
(757) 864-8711
kkrigsvold@larc.nasa.gov
Annenberg/CPB
Various series and programs free upon satellite down link agreement in English &
Spanish. Catalog available.
60 Garden Street, MS 82
Cambridge, MA 02138
channel@learner.org
800-228-8030
http://www.learner.org/channel
U.S. Department
of Education Education News 1hr monthly live satellite feed in
English with Sec. Rod Paige. Ships out later in Spanish
Also
“Vamos Juntos a la Escuela”…or “Together we go to school”.
Great program on promoting parents involvement in their child’s education.
All free--multi format.
Contact:
Ida Roxana Eblinger,
Associate Producer
400 Maryland Ave. S.W.
Room 5E221
Washington, DC 20202
202-401-1374
ida_eblinger@ed.gov
http://www.ed.gov/satelliteevent
SB2000
Small business series formerly on PBS “Pequeña Empresa en el Año 2000”
5 series 13x26min episodes avail overdubbed in Spanish
7 series 13x26min episodes avail in English
Contact:
Small Business School
Small Business 2000
700 Front Street
San Diego, CA 92101
Contact Bruce Camber or Hattie Bryant
619-232-4272
619-323-4213 fax
www.smallbusinessschool.org
PAHO
Pan-American Health Organization…psa’s & documentaries free of charge Multi
format
Contact:
Maria Esmeralda Paguaga,
Marketing/Video Production
525 Twenty-third Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20037
(202) 974-3849
paguagam@paho.org
http://www.paho.org
InTeleCom
Several series free to certain states including CA, NY, Ill, TX, FL
Cross Walks Café, Preserving the Legacy, On Common Ground
626-796-7300
http://www.intelecom.org
ILCE Instituto
Latinoamericano de Communicación Educativa
Over 90 hours
of educational, documentary and cultural programming
Contact:
Leslie Zambrano
International Marketing
From the U.S. dial direct 011-52-55-5555-5105
Mexico City
http://www.ilce.edu.mx
(Sat feeds may be available soon)
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LINKS:
Video on demand from Washington D.C.’s Office of Cable Television and
Telecommunications
The City of Las Vegas, NV also provides Video on Demand.
Pinellas County, FL has its Board meetings available as Video on Demand using
Real Player.
Here’s are links to channels that stream over the web.
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