Feb 22, 2022 Open Letter to Members of the Energy and Technology Committee regarding Fees & Public Rights of Way Re: AN ACT REQUIRING …COMMUNITY ACCESS … TO BE TRUE … Continue reading Open Letter | Fees & Public Rights Of Way
‘What if’ Community TV was embraced by Cable TV?
For over five decades, cable companies have not embraced Community TV a.k.a. Public Education Government Access TV (P.E.G.) In the 1960s, Cable Cowboys envisioned that an alternative to broadcast TV … Continue reading ‘What if’ Community TV was embraced by Cable TV?
You Recorded A Community Event. Now What?
You recorded a community experience on Zoom or a similar application. Now what? Consider how video reproduction and redistribution on community TV can be a vital service to your community … Continue reading You Recorded A Community Event. Now What?
Community Awards
One measure of success is community awards; especially, from peers. Another is to enable enough community engagement for ‘community produced’ television to happen regularly. We strive daily for a moment … Continue reading Community Awards
Kinde Next| Storytelling Matters
I thought about writing a memoir three time. The first, Kindle Next, would have focused on my introduction to advocacy work predominantly during my VISTA enlistment. Rich In Mercy was … Continue reading Kinde Next| Storytelling Matters
About the funding and the service: Lessons from Vermont
Vermont’s Community TV system is similar to Connecticut’s. The same Federal laws apply and the basics about PEG are universal. In 1995, CT modified the PEG underwriting and regulator management. … Continue reading About the funding and the service: Lessons from Vermont
And, then
Many communications have come across my desk with this message: We all had plans for 2020. And then COVID-19 happened. But we at #wpaatv carried on. Innovated. Connected to the conversations … Continue reading And, then
Information Literacy According to Freeman
All of us carry bias. Our beliefs and opinions are influenced … When we first meet someone, we already have a narrative we tell about them, just by looking at … Continue reading Information Literacy According to Freeman
On The Parade Ground (2009)
The following blog entry into On the Parade Ground was in 2009 when WPAA volunteers had lost a two-year effort to acquire a property on The Parade Ground. They also had … Continue reading On The Parade Ground (2009)
WPAA-TV As Discovered by Intern John A McMahon
In the quiet town of Wallingford, Connecticut, nestled on the edge of Center and South Orchard Street, sits a former barn turned “Community Media Center”. Where cultivated hay and livestock … Continue reading WPAA-TV As Discovered by Intern John A McMahon