Computers, television, shooting stuff with cameras, making TV shows, broadcasting, teaching and dancing.
Music
The Local Music Library I air, bar tone, universal counting leader blips, TV static and the sweet sounds of my programming.
Movies
As long as you make them and put them on the air, I love them!
Television
Public access television...the kind YOU make!
Books
Video editing console handbooks, How to Create Your Own Television, The Independent Producers' Guide Book, Don't Become What the Media Tells You and Short Cuts.
About me: I enjoy using my First Amendment rights, teaching the public how to create television, leaving my doors open for anyone to use what I have to offer and I like to watch tons TV and not be influenced by "The Man". I can't stand TV snow, blue-screen, Viacom, GE, Time Warner, Disney and News Corp.
For a democratic society to function properly, citizens must participate in their government, be educated to think critically and be able to freely communicate their ideas. The Peoples Channel’s mission is to advance democratic ideals by ensuring that people have access to electronic media and by promoting effective communication through community uses of media. Through this mission, we aim to provide the means and promote the opportunity for area citizens to exercise free speech through media production, education and distribution of cable television programming.
The primary goal of The Peoples Channel is to promote use of the designated access channel(s) by coordinating the use of the public access channel(s) and providing production facilities, and to provide technical assistance and media training to any individual, group, or organization interested in producing cultural, informational, entertainment, or educational media productions of interest to the community.
The Peoples Channel will provide Chapel Hill and the surrounding area residents, organizations, agencies and institutions with media training, equipment, production and related services on a first-come, first-served First Amendment basis. Our policies are designed to ensure maximum convenience and fairness for all in the community. Since we want public access and community media facilities to be available to the whole community, we welcome your suggestions on how we may improve these policies. All suggestions received will be reviewed by the Board of Directors.
its easy: for the next 30 days (today is the 3rd day) the person who leaves the most convincing comment gets our new album THE AIM IS THE WAY shipped FREE to your home address!
digging the burkey intro. how can i see more? who made it? isn't a wedgie in the front called a melvin? who was beaver's teacher in the first season? i need answers.
You MUST go watch this and vote positively and leave a good comment. If you do not do this a rain of botulism will follow you where ever you go.
The description:
In a small southern town, at a redneck bar, a has-been actor
has a first meeting with a director that doesn't quite seem to
have anything together.
Starring John Windsor-Cunningham, Dakota Marcoplos, Marius
Baud, Matt Gil and Phoenix as The Director with No Name. From
an idea by Mary Janca and based on characters and situations
in "27seconds"
Filmed on location and fully improvised over a six hour period
by John Windsor-Cunningham and Phoenix, this film was edited
in two weeks to premiere at Phoenix's Photography Exhibit at
the Tate St. Coffee House in Greensboro, NC March 10 2007.
You MUST go watch this and vote positively and leave a good comment. If you do not do this a rain of botulism will follow you where ever you go.
The description:
In a small southern town, at a redneck bar, a has-been actor
has a first meeting with a director that doesn't quite seem to
have anything together.
Starring John Windsor-Cunningham, Dakota Marcoplos, Marius
Baud, Matt Gil and Phoenix as The Director with No Name. From
an idea by Mary Janca and based on characters and situations
in "27seconds"
Filmed on location and fully improvised over a six hour period
by John Windsor-Cunningham and Phoenix, this film was edited
in two weeks to premiere at Phoenix's Photography Exhibit at
the Tate St. Coffee House in Greensboro, NC March 10 2007.
ON DEBATEPEDIA:
TELECOMMUNICATION REFORM:
MANDATE PROTECTION FOR CONTINUED SUPPORT FOR PUBLIC ACCESS. INCREASE FRANCHSIE PROVISIONS NOTHING LESS THAN THE 1984 Cable Act should be acceptable.
OPPOSE bills that will harm Public Access Channels and also limit municipal authority over telecommunication and cable franchise regulatory control.
Right now phone companies are lobbying to eliminate local municipal control over cable franchise licenses. The claim is such activity is to create more consumer choice and competition.
If this is successful it will destroy Public Access channels (P.E.G) by eliminating realistic funding and capital provisions that are supplied through local cable franchise license terms.
LOCAL CABLE FRANCHISE LICENSES ARE NOT THE REASON FOR ESCOLATING CABLE RATES NOR DO THEY STIFLE COMPETITION. Franchise terms are set at a fixed percentage based on gross annual revenue. Cable rates increase but the percentage has not. Competitors merely have to agree to match existing incumbent license, a boiler plate if you will, and it is as simple as that.
The public is being lied to by the writers and sponsors of such bills to change current law for profit sake.
In many cities, PEG channels often return a public service worth millions of dollars back into their communities every year. Public/Community access channels provide training, communication tools ( video production studio's, remote equipment, computers, and professional staff guidance) to empower individual citizens groups, organizations and business with an opportunity to outreach, share in a free flow of information, distribute video via cable and the Internet, educate and distribute and view government meetings.
Public Access channels serve as a free speech platform in an open electronic forum that is autonomous and ideally, free from political whim and corporate retribution.
The rich have many opportunities to get their voice heard but not the poor. Public Access provides such an opportunity for EVERYONE.
Many city's have documented quantitative evidence that suggest there is a growing need for Public Access community media and that it is deemed vital and important that assurances are maintained to ensure growth and expansion of public access into the future.
Currently support through local cable franchise environment, Public access participants create their own TV shows for cable and web cast, have access to training and equipment, post announcements, mobilize volunteers, discuss municipal and government issues, promote non-profit events and missions, share cultural and economic perspectives, create news, career skills and educational programs, entertain, and so much more. Visit http://www.wccatv.com for a glimpse of just what is going on in one city. Many other cities experience similar to Worcester and maybe even more in some cases.
Proposals for telecommunication reform specifically for cable choice and competition do not include provisions to guarantee the continuing needs for expanded capacity for Public Access channels.
We ask that legislators oppose any bill that will diminish Public Access franchise provisions including capital, operational funding, channel and broadband distribution, INet access, preview guide access, distribution on satellite systems, interconnect between competing systems, and other set asides that will accommodate the growth of Public Access. The airways and the property that cables and fiber optics are running on belong to the PEOPLE not the giant mega media companies.
Public Access should be in every city and town and properly supported. That would be a fair exchange for such rights of way. Public Access is TV by The People For The People and Of The People. Let's not take a step backwards by hurting this valuable institution of Public Access. For more go to http://www.saveaccess.org .
Ok, so today I got an email with the subject "Save Public Access Television." When I opened it, it was a penis enlargment pill. Wow. You guys really do offer a variety of services.
Really, Chad Johnston's secret life plan is to get some spinnie spins, ya know. He acts like he cares about community media, but really, it's all about those spinnie spins, especially the ones with rhinestones...
I was all like, "What the hell is this guy talking about," upon reading the comment below this one. Then I looked at his profile and I understand...an enlightened one.
