Put yourself on the map. Be a community media maker!
Freeman P Quinn, 1st Free Speech Ambassador
WPAA-TV empowers community voices in Wallingford, CT and beyond by providing free media production resources to individuals, nonprofits, and civic organizations. Our studioW facility offers professional-grade equipment and production space, enabling anyone to develop high-quality digital content for community access television and their preferred distribution platforms.
Since 1993, WPAA-TV has operated under the motto “Your Town, Your Station, Your Voice,” guided by core principles of community media. In 2016, our governance team had an “aha moment,” realizing we are #MoreThanTV—a community media hub that enables local storytelling, creative expression, and facilitates conversations in the public interest. We believe anyone can be a creator and that advocacy serves everyone’s interest.”
Mission
To provide a brave, safe, creative space for a diversity of expression within our community and beyond.
Discover what you did not know you needed. Use of WPAA-TV digital media tools and studioW stage can help inform, connect, and build community through the production of ideas, opinions, stories, news, information and/or performance. Join us.
#wpaatv #BeTheMedia #MoreThanTV #YourTownYourStationYourVoice #SocialActionArt #CelebrateWallingfordEveryday
Goals
- To operate a community-based media center inclusive of a television studio with community meetings, performance space, and a gallery
- To provide access to (free or low-cost) tools & stage to the public for creating and distributing media
- To foster awareness of the First Amendment and Free Speech (with gratitude for the 14th Amendment)
- To sustain Community Access TV resources on behalf of the people of Wallingford
- To enable transparency in government; especially, locally and globally
WPAA-TV is a volunteer-run nonprofit that supports citizen-produced media. Individuals, nonprofits, civic groups and businesses make their own videos for cablecast, simulcast and other distribution. WPAA-TV has 1st play rights.
Outreach goal: To create awareness of the resources available and the reasons they are and to evolve grassroots financial support to enable resources to remain equitably available at no cost to users.
WPAA-TV is your alternative to commercial media. Fundamental Community Access principles embedded in production and distribution policy are at the core of our First Amendment advocacy. These principles include but are not limited to:
- Enhance First Amendment rights by enabling informed Free Speech and transparency in government;
- Enable dissemination of diverse views to inform and foster inclusion, allyship, and collaboration;
- Support the development of hyper-local stories;
- Foster global awareness for local engagement; and
- Be a resource for alternatives to commercial media.
Transparency
To locate policies and compliance reports check out our Deep Dive Page.
We maintain a full profile on giveGreater.org a public documents repository managed by the Greater New Haven Community Foundation. Our profile is also on Candid: Wallingford Public Access
