Tri-Valley Community Television

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Tri-Valley Community Television (also known as TV30, after its main channel) is a local public access television service serving the four East San Francisco Bay Area cities collectively known as the "Tri-Valley". The cities include Livermore, Dublin, Pleasanton and San Ramon. The station, seen on Comcast cable channels 28, 29, and 30, was founded in the 1970's. Even though only homes with cable subscriptions in the four aforementioned cities are able to see the station, TV30 is well known throughout the Bay Area, gaining attention as far away as San Jose with small management controversies. The station is located in Pleasanton.

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[edit] History

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Tri-Valley Community Television started in 1976, founded by Darla Stevens. Known as CTV the station expanded from having only a few hours each day on the air, to growing to over three channels decades later. By the 1980s the station moved from covering local events and happenings, and began producing studio shows with the help of the local cable company.

Darla Stevens was Executive Director of the 501(c)3 California Non-Profit Public Benefit Corporation known as Tri-Valley Community Television until her retirement in fall of 2003. At that point, then Operations Manager Sheila Tole replaced Stevens as interim Executive Director. In March of 2004, Bruce Goddard was hired for the position of Executive Director and Tole departed.

Goddard instituted many changes in concert with city staff and the board, but in December of 2004 several employees of the station were removed by Goddard and made bitter, public accusations about his management style, threatening lawsuits to the station's board of directors. None of the employees were re-instated but accusations on behalf of the terminated employees lead to Goddard being placed on paid Administrative Leave pending an investigation. No results were officially released but some influential local papers fanned the flames with patently false, innaccurate and potentially libelous stories. Goddard refused public comment and chose to resign rather than continue under this cloud.

On July 1, 2005 Glenn Davis was hired as the station's new executive director. One month later the station went live with a digital video server.

One of the longest running shows at the station has been Let's Talk Sports. Hosted by George "Dr. B" Baljevich, the show grew from a call-in talk show, to a studio interview talkshow, and later a field production at TV30. The last in-studio taping of this show took place in 2004.

The 580/680 News is one of the other longest running shows at the station. Now known as TV30 News, the show has been anchored by Tom Morrison since its inception in 1989. George "Dr. B" Baljevich" has anchored sports for the newscast since the beginning. Ian Bartholomew also anchors the sports section of the show. Shortly after the show started, Robin Fahr joined Tom Morrison as Co-Anchor for the show. By 2005 she only anchored one or two days a week with Michelle Soba anchoring one day a week.

In 2004, when the station re-named itself TV30, the name of the newscast was changed to TV30 News. That move brought a re-modeled salmon colored news set replacing the dated blue-lit grey set. In Fall 2005, a new professionally-designed set was installed.

[edit] Programming

TV30 airs City Council meetings for the four cities on 28 and 29, as well as select other local government meetings. The bulk of the stations programming can be seen on channel 30. The station's flagship show is TV30 News, airing live at 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Other local programming includes "Everything Local", "Conversations With Robin Fahr", and "Tri-Valley Sports Final". The station also receives money to produce and air several shows, including "Livermore Life" (paid for by the Livermore Dowtown Association) and COPPS (City of Pleasanton Police).

[edit] Awards

TV30 has won two Telly awards. [1]

[edit] On-Air News Team

  • Tom Morrison
  • Michelle Soba
  • George "Dr. B" Baljevich (Dr. B's Blog)
  • Ian Bartholomew
  • Aja Vickers
  • Azenith Smith

[edit] Other On-Air Talent

  • Kathy Cordova
  • Robin Fahr
  • Myla Grasso
  • Jim Ott
  • Patty Powers
  • Carolyn Siegfried
  • Rachael Snedecor
  • Pete Sumolong
  • Eboni Warnking

[edit] Former Personalities

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