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09:28:40 08/06/09
Alliance for Community Media Video File Sharing Network Presentation
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This is Daniell Krawczyk's impromtu presentation of the ACM's video file-sharing network, now in beta test, delivered at the workshop, "Expanding the Reach of Community Programming," at the ACM-Northeast Regional Conference, Burlington, VT, May 22, 2009.
The full, 91-minute workshop video is on the ACM-NE's blip site.
"Leaders in the exchange of community programming talk about the networks that are in place (New Jersey, Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts), and how to help to build a national network of community produced/user generated content. Moderator: Rich Desimone, Jersey Access Group (JAG). Presenters: Scott Campitelli, RETN & VT Media Exchange; Moe Amaral, Media Specialist, SPCTV, South Portland, ME; Jeff Hansell, MyMassTV & Executive Director, BMC, Belmont, MA and Matt Landry, BMC Intern-Harvard University & Coordinator, MyMassTV." http://blip.tv/file/2162139
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23:06:27 07/28/09
Community Media Center Focused Drupal Workshop - Advanced; 7/15/09
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Alliance for Community Media 2009 Conference, Portland, OR
Community Media Centers can benefit greatly from the use of website content management systems (CMS) like Drupal. It is a free web tool that can save access staff time and resources and will enhance your center’s ability to distribute media, publish stories, handle events and so much more - all through your website. This advanced Drupal session will present specific modules designed for access and how to utilize them.
Workshop Leaders: Keri Stokstad, Executive Director, Newburyport Community Media , Newburyport, MA; John Montgomery, Civic Pixel , Denver, CO; Kate Gorman, Urbana Public Television , Urbana, IL
http://openmediaproject.org http://alliancecm.org
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21:12:12 07/26/09
Randy VanDalsen, 2009 Recipient, ACM's Dirk Koning-George Stoney Award for Humanistic Communication
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21:10:51 07/26/09
Nancy Richard, 2009 Recipient, ACM's Sue Buske Leadership Award
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07:08:08 09/20/08
House Appropriations Subcommittee 9/17/08 Hearing on PEG Access Television
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House Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government Hearing on Public, Educational, and Governmental (PEG) Access to Cable Television
For immediate release
September 18, 2008
US House Subcommittee will ask FCC to examine harm to public, educational, and governmental acess television
In response to testimony from Alliance for Community Media members yesterday, the House Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government voiced strong bi-partisan support for public, educational, and governmental (PEG) access for communities and asked the FCC to examine whether AT%T and other cable operators are in compliance with the Cable Act of 1984.
In opening remarks, Subcommittee Chairman Congressman Jose Serrano (NY-D) and Congressman Mark Kirk (IL-R) expressed concern that local PEG access channels are in danger of declining or disappearing as a result of the current regulatory and business environment.
Barbara Popovic , Executive Director of Chicago Access Network Television, representing the Alliance, and Michael Max Knobbe , president of the Alliance’s New York chapter, and Executive Director of BronxNet, presented testimony that detailed multiple problems with PEG access channel delivery arising out of recent actions by the FCC, state legislatures, the cable industry and AT%T. Problems that were outlined included a loss of funding and channels, movement of PEG to higher numbered channels (referred to as “channel slamming”), reduced quality and functionality of existing channels, and loss or reductions in public cable drops to schools, libraries and other public centers. Regarding the issues of AT& T’s treatment of PEG channels, Ms. Popovic said “Bottom line, AT%T, the company that promotes ‘choice’ in cable franchising, is giving viewers no choice when it comes to PEG.” Mr. Knobbe discussed the problems associated with channel slamming, which include additional costs to consumers to view PEG channels.
FCC Media Bureau Chief Monica Desai agreed that at least one of these practices may be illegal, stating “We believe that placing PEG channels on any tier other than the basic service tier may be a violation of the statute.” When asked why the FCC was not enforcing that provision of the statute, Ms. Desai indicated that the FCC needed a formal complaint in order to act, and had not received any. In response, Subcommittee member Adam Schiff (CA-D) stated that he believed the FCC had authority to enforce the law whether or not they’d received complaints.
In closing, Subcommittee Chairman Serrano (NY-D) and Representative Kirk (IL-R) announced that they would send a letter to the FCC asking it to deal with the issues raised at the hearing.
http://www.ourchannels.org/?p=202
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05:34:11 09/12/08
NCMR 2008 - Precious Places, Public Platforms: Strategic Uses of Community Technology
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http://www.freepress.net/node/39058
Precious Places, Public Platforms: Strategic Uses of Community Technology
Speakers: DeeDee Halleck, Lauren-Glenn Davitian, Louis Massiah
Date: Saturday, June 7th; 9:30am to 11:00am
Track: Journalism and Independent Media
video produced by Rob McCausland
"Beyond the cineplex, corporatized airwaves, telecom monopolies and Internet spam, this panel will look at how activists are using public interest channels, screenings, podcasts, Internet exploration and homemade transmitters in a broad array of images and sounds that are not mass mediated but created by artists and gamers, collectives and bloggers who are resisting homogenous commercial culture."
DeeDee Halleck, Independent filmmaker (http://www.freepress.net/node/39169)
DeeDee Halleck is a media activist, the founder of Paper Tiger Television and co-founder of the Deep Dish Satellite Network (www.deepdishtv.org). She is Professor Emerita at the University of California, San Diego and the author of Hand Held Visions: The Impossible Possibilities of Community Media. Her films have been featured at the Venice Film Festival, Cannes, the London Film Festival and many other international venues. She is co-producing a series about international community media titled Waves of Change.
Lauren-Glenn Davitian, Executive Director, CCTV Center for Media & Democracy
(http://www.freepress.net/node/39160)
Lauren-Glenn Davitian is the founder and executive director of CCTV's Center for Media & Democracy and is a long-time free speech veteran. Recently recognized by the Alliance for Community Media with the George Stoney Award for Humanistic Communications, Lauren-Glenn designs and develops the Center's programs and serves as a state and national advocate for public access media. In addition to her responsibilities at CCTV, she serves as chair of the ACM's Community Media Review Editorial Board and as a board member for NTEN.
Louis Massiah, Scribe Media Center (http://www.freepress.net/node/39203)
Louis Massiah is an independent documentary film maker whose films often explore historical and political subjects. His works include W.E.B. Du Bois -- A Biography in Four Voices (producer/director) and Louise Alone Thompson Patterson: In Her Own Words (producer/director), an oral history portrait of the political activist and Harlem Renaissance cultural worker. Currently he is executive producer of Haytian Stories, exploring the history of the 200-year relationship between the United States and Haiti. Massiah is the founder and executive director of the Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia, a media arts organization that provides low-cost workshops and equipment access to emerging video/filmmakers and community organizations. At Scribe, he has facilitated over 200 videotapes, including a variety of tapes documenting major issues and concerns facing urban communities, produced collaboratively with community members. A current project, the Precious Places Community History Project, is a citywide oral history portrait designed by Massiah that is composed of 50 short documentaries produced with 50 neighborhood organizations. Massiah is the recipient of a five-year MacArthur Foundation fellowship for his documentary filmmaking and received the Paul Robeson Award for Social Justice from Philadelphia's Bread and Roses Community Foundation.
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14:09:30 03/16/08
CT Statehouse Public Hearing on PEG Access TV - Pt 6 of 7
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On March 7, 2008, Connecticut's Joint Committee on Energy & Technology held a 4-hour hearing on HB 5814, a bill to amend last year's statewide video franchising law. There are two essential protections that PEG access advocates are asking to have added:
1) The bill should require any new video service providers to present all PEG access channels with the equivalent quality, accessibility and functionality of all other channels, as current cable providers do; and
2) all new video service providers shall bear the equipment and transmission costs of receiving the PEG access channels' signals, as current cable providers do.
Both of these concerns stem from AT%T's stated intentions in this state and others 1) to carry PEG channels in a significantly degraded fashion on its U-Verse service, and 2) to charge the PEG access providers for both the equipment and transmission costs necessary in order to receive their signals.
Clip 6*:
Begins with Susan Huizenga, Cable Advisory Council South Central Connecticut, Chair. Next are:
04:55 - Dennis Guargliaroni, Milford Govenment Access, line producer
10:00 - Walter Mann, North Haven TV, Executive Director
18:00 - Nancy Holk, Woodbridge resident
* Video coverage produced by Connecticut Network - all rights reserved.
http://www.ctn.state.ct.us/ondemand.asp
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13:15:48 03/16/08
CT Statehouse Public Hearing on PEG Access TV - Pt 5 of 7
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On March 7, 2008, Connecticut's Joint Committee on Energy & Technology held a 4-hour hearing on HB 5814, a bill to amend last year's statewide video franchising law. There are two essential protections that PEG access advocates are asking to have added:
1) The bill should require any new video service providers to present all PEG access channels with the equivalent quality, accessibility and functionality of all other channels, as current cable providers do; and
2) all new video service providers shall bear the equipment and transmission costs of receiving the PEG access channels' signals, as current cable providers do.
Both of these concerns stem from AT%T's stated intentions in this state and others 1) to carry PEG channels in a significantly degraded fashion on its U-Verse service, and 2) to charge the PEG access providers for both the equipment and transmission costs necessary in order to receive their signals.
Clip 5*:
Wyland Clift, Sound View Community Media attorney, accompanied by
Thomas Castelot, Sound View Community Media President
* Video coverage produced by Connecticut Network - all rights reserved.
http://www.ctn.state.ct.us/ondemand.asp
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08:16:00 03/16/08
CT Statehouse Public Hearing on PEG Access TV - Pt 1 of 7
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On March 7, 2008, Connecticut's Joint Committee on Energy & Technology held a 4-hour hearing on HB 5814, a bill to amend last year's statewide video franchising law. There are two essential protections PEG access advocates are asking to have added:
1) The bill should require any new video service providers to present all PEG access channels with the equivalent quality, accessibility and functionality of all other channels, as current cable providers do; and
2) all new video service providers shall bear the equipment and transmission costs of receiving the PEG access channels signals', as current cable providers do.
Both of these concerns stem from AT%T's stated intentions in this state and others 1) to carry PEG channels in a significantly degraded fashion on its U-Verse service, and 2) to charge the PEG access providers for both the equipment and transmission costs necessary in order to receive their signals.
In Clip 1*:
The hearing begins with Paul Giguere, Pres., Connecticut Network (Connecticut's 'C-SPAN'). Next are:
16:20 - Bill Duran, NCTA Chief Counsel
26:05 - Rep. Tom Drew, D-Fairfield
35:50 - Carole Young-Kleinfeld, Area 9 Cable Adv Council member
43:10 - Don Rowe, for Wallingford Mayor Wilkinson
* Video coverage provided by Connecticut Network - all rights reserved.
http://www.ctn.state.ct.us/ondemand.asp
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17:33:46 09/04/07
Putting Mission at the Center of Your CMC Pt 2
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Part Two of a presentation from Laurie Cirivello of the Grand Rapids Media Center at the Alliance for Community Media Conference in Minneapolis, July 27, 2007.
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21:34:09 03/23/07
Rep. John Dingell Questions FCC's Kevin Martin
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House Energy & Commerce Committee Chair John Dingell questions FCC Chairman Kevin Martin during the House Telecommunications and the Internet Subcommittee oversight hearing of the FCC held March 14, 2007. Much of the questioning focuses on the FCC’s December 20 ruling streamlining video franchising. Written testimony and archive video of the full hearing is available at the Subcomittee's site .
Videoclip: Copyright C-SPAN 2007
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