tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38983379947173550352024-02-19T07:00:44.488-08:00MNN in EXILE: Free Speech by MNN WhistleblowerDeeDee Halleckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16082147300122950343noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3898337994717355035.post-37044356365432510302014-05-15T07:30:00.002-07:002014-05-17T12:56:01.136-07:00Public Access Can Be Terrific!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Local-access cable shows are sharpening their focus</span></h1>
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Public-access programs sharpen with advances in technology, funding</span></h2>
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By <a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/staff/rosenberg" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.1s, 0.1s; -webkit-transition-property: color, background-color; -webkit-transition-timing-function: linear, linear; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #444444; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><cite style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Steven A. Rosenberg</cite></a></h2>
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Joe Lynch hosts the show “Greater Somerville,” one of the most popular cable programs on Somerville Community Access Television.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white;">In Newton, Jenn Adams delivered details of Mayor Setti Warren’s proposed budget as she read from a teleprompter on<a class="a" href="http://www.newtv.org/" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.1s, 0.1s; -webkit-transition-property: color, background-color; -webkit-transition-timing-function: linear, linear; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">NewTV</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white;">It has been 42 years since a landmark decision by the Federal Communications Commission created public access channels, opening the door to free speech advocates and anyone with the gumption and time to air a TV show for free on local cable.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white;">Long known for shaky cameras, scratchy sound, patchwork lighting, and a paucity of viewers, local access programming has improved in quality as the cable TV stratosphere has grown. Community stations receive up to 5 percent of the cable franchise’s annual local gross revenues.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white;">Last year, Verizon provided $31.1 million to 113 communities in Greater Boston, according to spokesman Phil Santoro. Comcast, the state’s largest cable provider, could not break down its figures, said Marc Goodman, the company’s Greater Boston director of public relations.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white;">For years, people have debated whether or not it’s worth it to fund local programming such as live coverage of city council and school board meetings, news and talk shows, and high school sports. Some subscribers, like Merrie Sylvia, didn’t even know that she was paying a fee for local access in Peabody.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white;">“Given the choice, I wouldn’t pay for it. I don’t watch it now,” she said.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white;">Since local programming has never been included in TV rating services such as Nielsen, it’s been impossible to get an idea of an audience size or who is watching. Over the years, some cable companies and access groups have conducted polling, but most of the time stations have relied on anecdotal feedback about their programs.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white;">But here’s a glimpse of the potential: In 2012, the Newton station won its first Boston/New England Emmy award for <a class="a" href="http://folklorist.newtv.org/" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.1s, 0.1s; -webkit-transition-property: color, background-color; -webkit-transition-timing-function: linear, linear; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">“Folklorist,”</a> where host John Horrigan weaves tales of intrigue using historic footage and an in-studio cast and crew. Beginning in July, the show will be nationally syndicated to 62 million homes.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white;">Michael Eggert, a Newton resident, said he has watched local access programming just two or three times in the last 15 years, but he still thinks it’s a good service for subscribers and doesn’t mind paying a few dollars extra a month. “I think it’s a good thing for people who want to have a voice and want to be heard. I think it’s a necessary inconvenience,” said Eggert.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white;">Howard Horton, who led the Massachusetts Cable Television Commission in the early 1980s and is now president of New England College of Business, believes that even if cable companies decided to give viewers the option to keep or drop access stations, the consumer’s bill could even grow higher since federal law allows cable operators to raise their rates at will.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white;">“There’s nothing that would create a ceiling on the rate, even if you didn’t have the money going into the public access channels,” said Horton.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white;">According to the FCC, the price of cable basic tiers or “bundling” has grown at more than twice the rate of inflation annually over the last 17 years.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white;">But some companies such as Netflix and Amazon have lured people away from cable by offering streaming movies. <a class="a" href="https://www.aereo.com/" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.1s, 0.1s; -webkit-transition-property: color, background-color; -webkit-transition-timing-function: linear, linear; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Aereo</a>, which allows subscribers to watch free broadcast stations on the Internet like ABC, CBS, and NBC for $8 a month, has tried to create an a la carte option for consumers, cutting out the local access channels and associated fees charged by Comcast, RCN, Verizon, and other providers. Aereo’s right to operate is <a class="a" href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2014/04/22/supreme-court-hears-case-challenging-aereo-right-stream-network-broadcasts-paying-consumers/Kl7yn8bx35O8ju2rNMWZDN/story.html" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.1s, 0.1s; -webkit-transition-property: color, background-color; -webkit-transition-timing-function: linear, linear; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">now being challenged</a> in the Supreme Court, and that decision is being watched closely by the cable industry and public access stations.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white;">Skip Tenczer, who helped build access stations in southern Massachusetts in the 1980s, and who now serves as an assistant professor of communications at the University of New Hampshire, said a la carte programming could eliminate guaranteed funding to local access stations.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white;">“If it goes a la carte, then people are going to have to choose what it is that they purchase and as a result, probably the most developed local access efforts will be the most successful,” said Tenczar.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white;">Stations in Newton and Brookline already have begun to diversify, rebranding their facilities as media centers that offer everything from digital TV production classes and programs to computer and photography workshops. Both stations even have private screening theaters that are used by other nonprofits for lectures and documentary film premieres.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white;">“Our goal is to lessen our dependency on cable television for our operating budget,” said Robert Kelly, executive director of NewTV, the Newton access center that has a $1.4 million annual budget. He expects to raise an additional $150,000 this year in private donations to the organization, which he considers a high-tech extension of the YMCA or Boys & Girls Club. With an artists gallery in the hallways, summer camps for video production, and a Facebook for Seniors computer club, Kelly sees diversification and a move away from just TV production as a way for access stations to bring the community together.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white;">“Public access is the old model. That was the ‘Wayne’s World’ show. That was the model of free speech,” he said. “We’ve had to rebrand to stay relevant.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white;">Still, TV production is the main focus of most public access centers, and the quality <span class="span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">of programming</span>has improved at many stations as equipment has gone digital. The format change has lowered equipment prices, making the gear smaller and easier to use and allowing amateurs to create shows that sometimes mirror network offerings.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white;">Gems in the region can be found by channel surfing or clicking on the station’s websites. A recent<a class="a" href="http://www.scatvsomerville.org/snn/" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.1s, 0.1s; -webkit-transition-property: color, background-color; -webkit-transition-timing-function: linear, linear; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">“Somerville Neighborhood News”</a> dedicated seven minutes to the plight of a high school student who longs to go to college but isn’t eligible for scholarships or grants because of his legal status as an undocumented immigrant. <a class="a" href="http://accessfram.tv/" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.1s, 0.1s; -webkit-transition-property: color, background-color; -webkit-transition-timing-function: linear, linear; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Access Framingham</a> aired a concert of the MetroWest Sympany Orchestra. In towns such as <a class="a" href="http://www.fcatv.org/" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.1s, 0.1s; -webkit-transition-property: color, background-color; -webkit-transition-timing-function: linear, linear; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Foxborough</a>, high school football games are covered with multiple cameras and even include sideline reporters.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white;">Local access stations can sometimes be used to rally the community. In Milford, Brittany Silverman, 11, came up with the idea of <a class="a" href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/regionals/west/2014/04/09/fifth-grader-comes-with-novel-way-raise-money-for-community-theater/cedvsIV2JPZZNkD18rcz3I/story.html" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.1s, 0.1s; -webkit-transition-property: color, background-color; -webkit-transition-timing-function: linear, linear; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">holding a live telethon</a> to raise funds for new air conditioning at the Milford Performing Arts Center. The <a class="a" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4AcUo3pQKQ" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.1s, 0.1s; -webkit-transition-property: color, background-color; -webkit-transition-timing-function: linear, linear; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">six-hour telethon</a>, which featured live performances, raised more than $4,000, according to the telethon’s <a class="a" href="https://www.facebook.com/MPACTelethon?ref=nf" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.1s, 0.1s; -webkit-transition-property: color, background-color; -webkit-transition-timing-function: linear, linear; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Facebook page</a>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white;">At NewTV, Adams serves as the station’s news director and produces “Newton News,” one of the stations most popular programs. The core of the show is put together by high school and college interns, with Adams — who started at the station 20 years ago as a volunteer — serving as a mentor. She teaches them how to shoot and edit video and do voiceovers, and prepares them to get reporting jobs once they finish college.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white;">“So far, out of the 100 I’ve taught, 46 have gotten jobs,” said Adams.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white;">Lynch, who has taped almost 500 shows since 2008 in Somerville, said he started his program because he wanted to have a voice in city affairs.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white;">“I believe public access provides the guy on the street, the average Joe, an opportunity to tell their own story and have it broadcast,” said Lynch. “We don’t have to answer to television or newspaper ownership or the political powers. We answer to good taste and what the public wants.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white;">Mark Linde, general manager of <a class="a" href="http://www.bcatv.org/" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.1s, 0.1s; -webkit-transition-property: color, background-color; -webkit-transition-timing-function: linear, linear; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Brockton Community Access,</a> said that station also is making the shift to a media center, like Newton and Brookline. As he walked through the 26,000-square-foot former bank, he pointed to a vacant second-floor room he hopes to transform into a screening theater.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white;">“I want to be more of a community media center; I don’t want to be just television,” said Linde, who has 32 years’ experience in public access. “What access centers are challenged to do is diversify their income stream.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white;">Meanwhile, one of the faces of Brockton, Manuel Andrade, prepared to tape another segment of “Selo Ernestina,” which is named for a Cape Verdean cargo ship. At 77, the retired handyman has been hosting the show since 1993. When asked why he still comes in every week, he explained that he does it for the local Cape Verdean population — which the US Census’s 2008-2012 American Community Survey <a class="a" href="http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_12_5YR_B04001&prodType=table" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.1s, 0.1s; -webkit-transition-property: color, background-color; -webkit-transition-timing-function: linear, linear; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">estimated at about 13,000 </a>— some of whom do not speak English.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white;">“I like serving the community,” he said.</span></div>
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DeeDee Halleckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16082147300122950343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3898337994717355035.post-72919505644179732382013-11-20T17:09:00.000-08:002013-11-20T17:12:15.733-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This morning MNN played this tape right after Democracy Now. Even though I am supposedly banned by Dan Coughlin from doing ANYTHING on MNN. Little did they know that is wonderful tape was a project I spent a year on. It's a wonderful series, and it BLOWS away the stupid PBS recent series on Latinos. Beyond the Browning is a wonderful project that was a collaboration between Deep Dish and the Center for Puerto Rican Studies: The Satellite University Network (SUN). I await the day that MNN can produce a program of this caliber. Cynthia Lopez was the series coordinator and Pedro River and Susan Zeig produced this compilation from many wonderful producers.
Please write to Dan and tell him to run the rest of the series (there are 6 programs in all) Don't tell him it's my series or he will ban it!!! dan@MNN.orgDeeDee Halleckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16082147300122950343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3898337994717355035.post-34318410553904092702013-10-03T06:42:00.001-07:002013-10-03T06:50:24.690-07:00Commercialization of Manhattan Neighborhood Network<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: white;">The Following Is Included in the Program Policies of MNN (on their web site)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">There is a CLEAR VIOLATION of those policies by a group called "Specialized Fitness and Nutrition" which has a program (made in 2012 at Harlem Week Festival) which is a blatant "informercial" for a commercial service.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Given the many rumors about staff being "paid off" "under the table" that surfaced this week at the producers meeting, I wonder if there is some sort of payment involved in the presentation of this program. I have seen it transmitted several times. Why hasn't the staff outlawed this obvious violation of MNN content rules??</span></span></div>
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DeeDee Halleckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16082147300122950343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3898337994717355035.post-35552755425833817192013-09-08T18:52:00.000-07:002013-09-08T19:03:33.226-07:00OPEN BOARD MEETINGS ARE REQUIRED!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="background-color: cyan; color: #343434; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">This is how WSKG, the Binghamton radio station announces their board meetings. MNN is in violation of the NY State Open Meetings Law by not announcing when their board meetings (and the committee meetings) are scheduled. They are supposed to be open to the public.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1b3641; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 17.0pt; letter-spacing: 3.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><span style="background-color: cyan;">BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETINGS</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">To begin at 5:30 PM
in the Hoyt Conference Room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">August 27, 2013
October
22, 2013
December 10, 2013
February 25, 2014
April 22, 2014
June 24, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1b3641; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 17.0pt; letter-spacing: 3.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><span style="background-color: cyan;">DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MEETINGS</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">To begin at 3:00 PM
in the Garbade Conference Room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">July 17, 2013
September
18, 2013
November 20, 2013
January 15, 2014
March 19, 2014
May 21, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1b3641; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 17.0pt; letter-spacing: 3.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><span style="background-color: cyan;">EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETINGS</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">The Executive
Committee met March 12, 2013, and April 15, 2013, to discuss matters of
personnel and proprietary concern.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1b3641; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 17.0pt; letter-spacing: 3.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><span style="background-color: cyan;">FINANCE/AUDIT COMMITTEE MEETINGS</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">To begin at 3:00 PM
in the Garbade Conference Room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">July 2, 2013 <i>(canceled)</i>
September
3, 2013
November 5, 2013
January 7, 2014
March 4, 2014
May 6, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1b3641; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 17.0pt; letter-spacing: 3.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><span style="background-color: cyan;">GOVERNANCE/NOMINATING COMMITTEE MEETINGS</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">To begin at 3:00 PM
in the Garbade Conference Room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">July 11, 2013 <i>canceled</i>
September
12, 2013
November 14, 2013
January 9, 2014
March 13, 2014
May 8, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1b3641; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 17.0pt; letter-spacing: 3.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><span style="background-color: cyan;">COMMUNITY ADVISORY BOARD TASK FORCE MEETINGS</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">To take place in the
Garbade Conference Room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">April 3, 2013, at
11:00 am
April 16, 2013, at 2:00 pm
May 10, 2013, at 10:30 am<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1b3641; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 17.0pt; letter-spacing: 3.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><span style="background-color: cyan;">NOTIFICATION FOR SPECIFIED MEETINGS:</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">1. Reasonable notice
of all company Board of Trustees, Board Committee, and Advisory Board
''meetings"(1) will be made at least one week prior to the meeting. WSKG
will air the notices on both WSKG-FM and WSKG-TV. The notices will also appear
on WSKG's web page.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">2. The station will
give advance notice of the fact that a regularly scheduled meeting, which is
usually open to the public, will be "closed"(2) and the notice of the
closing will be disseminated in the same manner as the notice of an open meeting.
If a meeting or portion of a meeting is closed to the public, a written
statement containing an explanation of the reasons for closing the meeting will
be made available to the public within a reasonable time thereafter or, in the
alternative, the written explanation for a closed meeting will be made
available to the public at the offices of WSKG or a copy of the explanation
will be mailed to any person requesting one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">3. Persons
specifically requesting to be notified of meetings will be informed by letter,
e-mail, facsimile, or phone at least one week prior to the meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">4. Once each
quarter, the station will make on-air announcements for at least three
consecutive days to explain the station's open meeting policy and provide
information about how the public can obtain information regarding specific
dates, times, and locations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">5. Copies of the
minutes of all open meetings will be made available to the public upon request.
A reasonable charge to cover copying or mailing costs may be considered for
this service. If a member of the public wishes to inspect the minutes at the
station, it would not be unreasonable to require an appointment be made with
the station as long as the process is not burdensome to the public.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">(1) The term
"meeting" means the deliberations of at least the number of members
of a governing or advisory body, or any committee thereof, required to take
action on behalf of such body or committee where such deliberations determine
or result in the joint conduct or disposition of the governing or advisory
body's business, or the committee's business, as the case may be, but only to
the extent that such deliberations relate to public broadcasting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">(2) The law provides
exceptions to the open meeting requirement. "Closed" sessions can be
conducted to consider matters relating to individual employees, proprietary
information, litigation, and other matters requiring the confidential advice of
counsel, commercial or financial information obtained from a person on a
privileged or confidential basis, or the purchase of property or services
whenever the premature exposure of such purchase would compromise the business
interests of WSKG.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1b3641; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 17.0pt; letter-spacing: 3.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">POLICY ON PUBLIC COMMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">The WSKG Board of
Trustees ("Board") welcomes relevant constructive comment from the
public at its meetings. So that the process will be efficient and productive,
the following protocol is established.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">1. A "Public
Comment" line will be included in the agenda for regular Board of
Trustees' meetings which will be placed after all Committee Reports and before
Trustee Comments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">2. Public comments,
and any matter submitted, where a response is requested from the Board must be
in writing (e-mail is acceptable) and submitted to WSKG's Chief Executive
Officer at least five (5) business days prior to the next Board meeting. All
written responses will be reviewed by WSKG's General Counsel and will be
entered in the public file of the corporation. The total time for public
comments will be limited to twenty (20) minutes, with each person limited up to
five (5) minutes. Priority recognition will be given to those persons who have
not previously addressed the Board.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">3. Written inquiries
sent to the Board, or comments made at Board meetings, must be relevant to the
Board's functions and responsibilities, i.e., station mission, policy,
finances, strategic planning, and must not address issues to which the Board
has responded in the previous nine (9) months, a determination of which will be
made by the Chair.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">4. This policy is
subject to cancellation or modification, at any time, in the discretion of the
Board.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">This policy will be
published on WSKG's web site, will be available at WSKG's front desk, and will
be handed out to the public at Board meetings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">WSKG's management
and staff are also available to hear and respond to public comments. To submit
a comment to WSKG directly, rather than the Board of Trustees, please click
here.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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DeeDee Halleckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16082147300122950343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3898337994717355035.post-53536776391805632102013-08-23T06:06:00.003-07:002013-08-23T21:18:02.746-07:00New York Citizens for Responsible Media<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: red;">New York Citizens for Responsible Media was an ad hoc organizing group to pressure NYC and Time Warner to set up studios and proper access for community media. </span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">The above notes look like the handwriting of Martha Wallner. The group researched what other cable access centers had. The top is about Austin, Texas, which at that time had one of the most active and successful access centers in the country. We also looked at Chicago which hadn't started. And the lower half are notes for making a flyer to enlist people to the struggle for access and better service from Time Warner.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Many public hearings were held, thanks to the pressure from Ruth Messinger's office. NYCCRM showed up at every meeting with facts and figures and demands for access.</span></div>
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From Bob Devine:</div>
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One slight correction. Diana Agosta and I worked with the board and the Borough presidents office throughout 1990-1991 to put the organization in place. I took the capital, policy and staffing plans to Albany to get the funding for MNN released and scouted locations. </div>
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If I'm not mistaken, Alex Quinn (my recommendation) was hired well before 1994. </div>
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This is the letter from<br />
Dan Coughlin<br />
banning me from<br />
Manhattan<br />
Neighborhood<br />
Network.<br />
<br />
I never threatened<br />
anyone at MNN. I<br />
defended Papoleto<br />
who was removed<br />
from a "leadership<br />
class" because he<br />
tried to attend an<br />
MNN board meeting.<br />
MNN does not<br />
want the public to<br />
attend their meetings.<br />
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They<br />
have<br />
eliminated<br />
the<br />
community<br />
media<br />
grants<br />
and<br />
raised the<br />
executive<br />
salaries.<br />
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Public accèss<br />
is our free<br />
speech.<br />
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Free speech includes criticizing public institutions that misuse public<br />
funds. I am being censored for trying to make MNN live up to the<br />
utopian ideals for which we founded it. MNN was founded by NY<br />
Citizens for Responsible Media: Paper Tiger TV, FAIR and several<br />
other media activist organizations. We worked for four years to<br />
pressure the city council and the borough president (Ruth Messinger)<br />
to use the city cable revenues to create a proper media facility for<br />
the city. We marched in front of Time Warner; we testified at the<br />
City Council; we held endless meetings and strategy sessions.<br />
The current management has banned me from the channel and the<br />
facility on trumped up charges. See the video on this blog which<br />
Dan Coughlin claims is a threat to a staff member.<br />
Judge for yourself.<br />
DeeDee Halleck<br />
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DeeDee Halleckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16082147300122950343noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3898337994717355035.post-57606921797781112742013-08-15T08:55:00.000-07:002013-08-15T08:55:51.027-07:00The Origins of MNN: New York Citizens for Responsible Media<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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