Moving from Public Access Television to PBS and broadcast

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Moving from Public Access Television to PBS and Broadcast

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[edit] Getting Started

Public Access Television is a community resource for producing television.

[edit] Public Access vs. Leased Access

Many of the public access stations around the country are hurting for funding, especially as local communities are given the choice to decide between funding public access with resources given to them by cable companies, or putting that money into other things.

[edit] Cable Companies that control and direct public Access

There are a number of communities where the cable company also controls the public access tv station, and with little financial incentive to train community members on production, often cable companies give priority to leased access producers.

[edit] Finding a PBS affiliate station

Once a show, documentary or series takes shape from building its skills and audience via public access, it is possible to then find a local Public Television Station to become interested in acting as an affiliate station for potential regional and national broadcasting.

[edit] PBS production guidelines are strict

Producing for PBS distribution requires meeting very strict broadcast and production standards, including specifications on everything from picture and sound guidelines, to placing TV ratings, closed captioning and many more. The local PBS station can assist with these production requirements if they decide to become an affiliate.

[edit] Marketing to PBS programmers nationally

There are over 250 Public Television stations nationally, and although some regional stations are grouped together, a PBS television producer will have to market to at least 200 individual programmers at each station. The marketing occurs once a program or series has received its affiliation and a satellite uplink date has been secured. Then the date of this satellite uplink needs to be communicated to the programming decision makers at all these stations, providing a real marketing challenge with all of the variety of producers and product out there to choose from.

[edit] See also

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBS

[edit] References

Public Access Television - by Laura R Linder Hand-Held Visions - by Dee Dee Halleck

[edit] External links

www.pbs.org www.itvs.org www.cpb.org www.hippygourmet.com

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