Category Archives: Community Media
- Support Public Access TV!– also posted in General, Video
- Producer Video: Giant Jam Sandwich– also posted in Video
- Producer Video: ADA 19th Aniversary Celebration– also posted in Video
- Producer Video: Iowa City Animal Shelter– also posted in Video
- Highlights from ACM Midwest Conference 2008– also posted in Save Access, Video
Follow this link to see the highlights from the ACM Midwest Conference 2008.
- Current Legislation & the Erosion of Independent Media– also posted in News, Save Access
As you may be aware, PATV is tracking changes in legislation that will affect the future of public, educational, and governmental access (PEG) channels. The way that the law currently stands means that in the best-case scenario, PEG has only ten more years of funding in Iowa. PATV is taking steps to turn this unfriendly law around. PATV director Josh Goding was recently appointed to be the representative from the Midwest Region to the national board of the Alliance for Community Media (ACM). The ACM is a national alliance of PEG channels that, among other endeavors, will be challenging some of the FCC’s recent unlawful rulings with regard to video franchising. Goding will be attending the ACM board meeting in Washington, D.C., the first weekend in November, to help arm PATV for a new legislative push in 2008. For more information on the current state of disaster facing our community channels and the decline of independent media, go to http://ourchannels.org and http://www.freepress.net and get the scoop!
- 21 Ordinance– also posted in Local Events, News, Video
A short segment on the upcoming vote re: the 21 Ordinance in Iowa City.
Produced by Julie Spencer
- Make your own TV show …while you still can!!!– also posted in Save Access
For those who haven’t heard, new legislation has passed in Iowa that may have serious consequences for not just PATV and the other local P.E.G. stations, but all access channels state-wide.
With the future so tenuous and uncertain, the ability to use local cable-cast television to express your voice possesses a newfound sense of urgency and importance.
So come! Put those big ideas rolling around your head on the small screen for your fellow Iowa City citizens to see, before access TV is nothing but a memory!…
- Iowa City Shelter House
An inside look at Iowa City’s homeless shelter and an interview with its director.
Segment produced by Julie Spencer.
