Create a New Forum Admin Login Member Login Contribute to Voyager Search VoyForums Help Desk VoyForums Exchange VoyForums Directory/Categories VoyForums Homepage VoyForums News FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions

[ Show ]

Support VoyForums

[ Shrink ]

VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1 ]

Subject: Local Public Access Broadcasting Possible? Author: Anonymous [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: Thu, February 19 2004, 23:16:44 PST Posted on http://www.sliderule.net/ Wednesday, February 18 @ 21:25:59 PST by SwedChef cybercowboy writes "I want to do what I can to assist the movement to remove the barriers that the citizens of Grant County face to getting a message out the the citizens of Grant County and the world. Thank GOD we have a public forum like sliderule.net to allow us a voice! I feel we need more! With the efforts of many folks working on bringing back Free To Air TV either by Rabbit Ears or Satellites, I feel we should also entertain the ability for a local broadcast ability! Grant County has never had the ability to orginate Television Programming on a local channel of its own. Yes, we have a semblence of that with Channel 3 on Northland and Channel 999 on Vib TV but they are limited to cable and Zipp Subscribers. These services are also fairly restrictive in what and who they allow to submit content to them and they do not have the studio space to allow live tapeing of news and community information for broadcasting. To the credit of the Moses Lake School District they have an excelent Video Broadcasting class called BNCTV that trains High School students in creating video productions, however this training and access to the equipment is limited to students and not open to the public. If Grant County had a local tv station then the students would have a place to go to work when they graduate and then Grant County would not loose students to out-of-town jobs and the citizens would have a place to produce content for broadcast. What would it take to set up a public local news and community information broadcasting studio? A few hundred thousand? Maybe less, maybe more. Lets find out. Lets look for grants and corporate advertising funds to make it happen. Internet Video Broadcasting can be done now for a few thousand dollars in equipment with access to high speed internet connections, what would it take to beam it out over the air waves and up to the satalights then back down to us? If it can be done then Northland could pick it up and Vib Could also pick it up. If the Zipp is finished then every resident could connect to the studio and submit content to broadcast and even do live broadcasting from home studios. Then all the eyes could see and all the ears could hear and all the voices would have a forum to speak and be seen! Peoples TV could really be our local voice to the TV viewers. What say you? I would really like to know how many folks would find this interesting to talk about, so please reply to this article on sliderule.net or on my web site. Michael Scott McGinn The Video Makers Club, President http://www.videomakersclub.com/ [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]