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What Is Happening At SF Community Access/SF Commons Or Not Happening: San Francisco Commun
The Bay Area Video Coalition managers have said that they cannot put a list up on the SF Commons website of all the producers at the station and their shows and web or email links. They also are not able to have timely programming of Democracy Now because they say they cannot afford $150.00 a month although hundreds of community access stations in the US program the show. There are serious systemic problems about how community access is being run in San Francisco.
What Is Happening At SF Community Access/SF Commons Or Not Happening: San Francisco Community Access At Risk?
What Is Happening At SF Community Access/SF Commons Or Not Happening:
San Francisco Community Access At Risk?
By Steve Zeltzer
8/31/2010
http://www.laborvideo.org
On 8/30/2010, there was a monthly meeting of the San Francisco Community Access Station SF Commons which programs on Comcast Channel 29 and Channel 76. It was held at the offices of the Bay Area Video Coalition, which is next to KQED on Mariposa and Bryant St. in the South of Market area. Mayor Newsom's Department of Technology turned the station over to the management of BAVC promising that they would help maintain the community producers and build support for the station. If this meeting is any indication of where community access is at in San Francisco, it is in a dangerous state.
The meeting was attended by about 8 people of whom were two staffers of the station and two new producers. The meeting was chaired by the SF Commons Community Chair Idell Washington and also attending was Board member Ellison Horne.
Before the meeting started, I asked if there had been any public community board meetings, and Washington said that they were still getting organized and said that they had been meeting since last November but that other officers of the board had quit. I also asked if they have minutes and allow community producers to attend. She did not clearly said that they had minutes and also said that the board meetings had not been open. She also said that the board had voted to allow volunteers to help the station operate but that the management was against this policy.
The actual meeting was held in the main studio that remains unused by regular programmers. Although it has the lights and a control room, BAVC manager Jennifer Giloman who is also Lead Developer of Strategic Initiatives for BAVC said that BAVC could not use volunteers to use the studio but required paid staff of BAVC. Hundreds of thousands of public funds were used to shut down the station on Market Street built out for over $1 million and two years to move to BAVC where the studio remains unused as a production studio. The City is also paying BAVC $4500.00 a month to subsidize their rent from capital funds although Executive Director Ken Ikeda and SF Department of Technology Barry Fraser said that these funds could not be used for rent at the Market St. space.
The meeting began with about 8 people attending and I requested the opportunity to ask some questions about what is happening at community access in San Francisco. I began by asking why there was no list of all the community producers on the website of the SF Commons with the contact email or websites of producers so viewers could easily find out what shows were on the stations? Jennifer Giloman said that they were still working on rolling out a website with all the programs that would be searchable. Another producer said he had tried to search for his program and could not find it and when it was scheduled. I again asked if they could at least have a link to a web page with all the producers and programmers.
Giloman then said they were not allowed to give out the names of the producers. This was challenged by the SF Commons Advisory Board Chair Washington who said this was a public access station and there are "no secret producers here". Board member Ellison Horne also spoke up and said he had volunteered to put a list of producers at Channel 29 and Channel 76 together for the website. Giloman however was adamant that this was impossible to place on the SF Commons website until some future date when the new web system would be in place. So over a year after BAVC has taken over San Francisco community access, there is no list on their website of who is producing on San Francisco's community access station so people can check out their programs.
One additional question was raised by myself and that was why SF Commons cannot program Democracy Now, the national alternative news show on the same day it is run around the country. At the Market Street station run by the Community Television Corporation CTC, Democracy Now was run every day at the same time from a satellite feed. Giloman said that this was not possible at BAVC because it required that they have to pay $150.00 a month to get a subscription to a satellite channel and install a dish. She said that BAVC was working with the producers of Democracy Now to underwrite this cost.
Bay Area Video Coalition advertises itself as a high tech education center for the community video and film producers who want to produce media, yet it cannot afford a subscription to get satellite programming? This failure of the BAVC to even have a dish at their center so they can have national and international programming available to their users raises real question about what kind of operation they are running. Democracy Now is run on hundreds of community access channels throughout the United States and yet the San Francisco operation of community access can't afford this. I suggested that they put a notice about this on their website and let the public and supporters of Democracy Now know about their need for $150.00 a month to run it on a timely fashion, but Giloman assured everyone that they wanted to work it out with the producers of Democracy Now.
This SF Commons meeting at BAVC shows that there are serious systemic problems in the management and operations of our community access stations, and raises again about the intentions of giving the operation of the station to a operator that apparently even get up a dish and raise $150.00 a month for a subscription for satellite services.
Supporters of San Francisco Community Access need to contact the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, and demand that no further additional funding of community access until there is a full audit of where the over $1 million has gone and why BAVC has violated it's franchise agreement which requires that they keep and expand the users of community access. Failure to even list the producers is clear evidence that they are not interested in helping to publicize the programs and the work that producers do.
They have also flagrantly violated the contract by refusing to provide financial reports to members of the public and were recently found by the San Francisco Ethics Commission on August 10, 2010 to have made willful violation of Sunshine Ordinance by refusing to provide documents to the public. They also have violated the franchise agreement by refusing to have an open BAVC board meeting at least twice a year.
BAVC Lies To SF Board Of Supervisors To Get $375,00 From City
http://blip.tv/file/3982837
BAVC Charged With Willful Violation of Sunshine Ordinance-Refuses To Provide Documents To Public
http://blip.tv/file/3996430
The next meeting of the BAVC board if it is not cancelled again is on September 23, 2010 for just one hour for the public to able to attend. People concerned about the future of San Francisco should attend and allow their voices to be heard.
Sunshine Compliance Policy - Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC)-BAVC Board Meeting Moved To Sep 23, 2010
http://www.bavc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2169&Itemid=1920
Photograph of main studio at SF Commons/BAVC. The studio remains out of use because BAVC management refuses to use volunteers to staff the studio.
What Is Happening At SF Community Access/SF Commons Or Not Happening:
San Francisco Community Access At Risk?
By Steve Zeltzer
8/31/2010
http://www.laborvideo.org
On 8/30/2010, there was a monthly meeting of the San Francisco Community Access Station SF Commons which programs on Comcast Channel 29 and Channel 76. It was held at the offices of the Bay Area Video Coalition, which is next to KQED on Mariposa and Bryant St. in the South of Market area. Mayor Newsom's Department of Technology turned the station over to the management of BAVC promising that they would help maintain the community producers and build support for the station. If this meeting is any indication of where community access is at in San Francisco, it is in a dangerous state.
The meeting was attended by about 8 people of whom were two staffers of the station and two new producers. The meeting was chaired by the SF Commons Community Chair Idell Washington and also attending was Board member Ellison Horne.
Before the meeting started, I asked if there had been any public community board meetings, and Washington said that they were still getting organized and said that they had been meeting since last November but that other officers of the board had quit. I also asked if they have minutes and allow community producers to attend. She did not clearly said that they had minutes and also said that the board meetings had not been open. She also said that the board had voted to allow volunteers to help the station operate but that the management was against this policy.
The actual meeting was held in the main studio that remains unused by regular programmers. Although it has the lights and a control room, BAVC manager Jennifer Giloman who is also Lead Developer of Strategic Initiatives for BAVC said that BAVC could not use volunteers to use the studio but required paid staff of BAVC. Hundreds of thousands of public funds were used to shut down the station on Market Street built out for over $1 million and two years to move to BAVC where the studio remains unused as a production studio. The City is also paying BAVC $4500.00 a month to subsidize their rent from capital funds although Executive Director Ken Ikeda and SF Department of Technology Barry Fraser said that these funds could not be used for rent at the Market St. space.
The meeting began with about 8 people attending and I requested the opportunity to ask some questions about what is happening at community access in San Francisco. I began by asking why there was no list of all the community producers on the website of the SF Commons with the contact email or websites of producers so viewers could easily find out what shows were on the stations? Jennifer Giloman said that they were still working on rolling out a website with all the programs that would be searchable. Another producer said he had tried to search for his program and could not find it and when it was scheduled. I again asked if they could at least have a link to a web page with all the producers and programmers.
Giloman then said they were not allowed to give out the names of the producers. This was challenged by the SF Commons Advisory Board Chair Washington who said this was a public access station and there are "no secret producers here". Board member Ellison Horne also spoke up and said he had volunteered to put a list of producers at Channel 29 and Channel 76 together for the website. Giloman however was adamant that this was impossible to place on the SF Commons website until some future date when the new web system would be in place. So over a year after BAVC has taken over San Francisco community access, there is no list on their website of who is producing on San Francisco's community access station so people can check out their programs.
One additional question was raised by myself and that was why SF Commons cannot program Democracy Now, the national alternative news show on the same day it is run around the country. At the Market Street station run by the Community Television Corporation CTC, Democracy Now was run every day at the same time from a satellite feed. Giloman said that this was not possible at BAVC because it required that they have to pay $150.00 a month to get a subscription to a satellite channel and install a dish. She said that BAVC was working with the producers of Democracy Now to underwrite this cost.
Bay Area Video Coalition advertises itself as a high tech education center for the community video and film producers who want to produce media, yet it cannot afford a subscription to get satellite programming? This failure of the BAVC to even have a dish at their center so they can have national and international programming available to their users raises real question about what kind of operation they are running. Democracy Now is run on hundreds of community access channels throughout the United States and yet the San Francisco operation of community access can't afford this. I suggested that they put a notice about this on their website and let the public and supporters of Democracy Now know about their need for $150.00 a month to run it on a timely fashion, but Giloman assured everyone that they wanted to work it out with the producers of Democracy Now.
This SF Commons meeting at BAVC shows that there are serious systemic problems in the management and operations of our community access stations, and raises again about the intentions of giving the operation of the station to a operator that apparently even get up a dish and raise $150.00 a month for a subscription for satellite services.
Supporters of San Francisco Community Access need to contact the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, and demand that no further additional funding of community access until there is a full audit of where the over $1 million has gone and why BAVC has violated it's franchise agreement which requires that they keep and expand the users of community access. Failure to even list the producers is clear evidence that they are not interested in helping to publicize the programs and the work that producers do.
They have also flagrantly violated the contract by refusing to provide financial reports to members of the public and were recently found by the San Francisco Ethics Commission on August 10, 2010 to have made willful violation of Sunshine Ordinance by refusing to provide documents to the public. They also have violated the franchise agreement by refusing to have an open BAVC board meeting at least twice a year.
BAVC Lies To SF Board Of Supervisors To Get $375,00 From City
http://blip.tv/file/3982837
BAVC Charged With Willful Violation of Sunshine Ordinance-Refuses To Provide Documents To Public
http://blip.tv/file/3996430
The next meeting of the BAVC board if it is not cancelled again is on September 23, 2010 for just one hour for the public to able to attend. People concerned about the future of San Francisco should attend and allow their voices to be heard.
Sunshine Compliance Policy - Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC)-BAVC Board Meeting Moved To Sep 23, 2010
http://www.bavc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2169&Itemid=1920
Photograph of main studio at SF Commons/BAVC. The studio remains out of use because BAVC management refuses to use volunteers to staff the studio.
For more information:
http://blip.tv/file/3996430
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It's been exactly one year since the "non-profit" Yuppies at BAVC HIJACKED S.F. "Public" Access TV.
Close to $1 Million Taxpayer Dollars has been handed over by the SF BOS and Newsom-connected Dept. of Tech. to these Hijackers to Privatize our Community Access Station.
Going to the SF BOS to complain about this crime is a dead-end, concerned taxpayers,
producers, and cable subscribers.
At this late juncture, The People's options are limited:
(1) File Suit in Court against BAVC/CCSF for Fraud,
Misappropriation of Public Funds, Breach of Contract, to start.
(2) Pursue an Injunction that would Prevent any Further
Public Access TV Operational/Capital Funding of BAVC.
(3) Seek a New Public Access Operator who will Restore
Operations, Hours, and Access, to previous or greater
levels.
Unless We, The People, employ this strategy, "community"
access under BAVC's control will remain "privatized"
permanently. Guaranteed.
Close to $1 Million Taxpayer Dollars has been handed over by the SF BOS and Newsom-connected Dept. of Tech. to these Hijackers to Privatize our Community Access Station.
Going to the SF BOS to complain about this crime is a dead-end, concerned taxpayers,
producers, and cable subscribers.
At this late juncture, The People's options are limited:
(1) File Suit in Court against BAVC/CCSF for Fraud,
Misappropriation of Public Funds, Breach of Contract, to start.
(2) Pursue an Injunction that would Prevent any Further
Public Access TV Operational/Capital Funding of BAVC.
(3) Seek a New Public Access Operator who will Restore
Operations, Hours, and Access, to previous or greater
levels.
Unless We, The People, employ this strategy, "community"
access under BAVC's control will remain "privatized"
permanently. Guaranteed.
More Steve, not listening to anyone and stretching the truth as far as he possibly can. He is disappointed that he didn't get the contract with the City to run public access, control the station, and produce his studio show. He refuses to recognize that the funding situation in San Francisco has dramatically changed, and that BAVC is doing everything it can to offer services to the community. BAVC has producers in our facility every day using field equipment, edit suites, and production space for free; we are training community producers and offering $10/year low income memberships with a huge package of services; we are running monthly community events and open mic nights; we are developing a community news project with an Americorps service member; and we are wasting precious staff time responding to the constant attacks of Steve Zeltzer and Nick Pasquariello. They are determined, for some reason, to cause as much suffering as possible to our staff, rather than to do something productive.
It is true, Steve attended the first 30 minutes of the meeting on Monday evening, which was intended to be a skill share called "Marketing Your Show." He disrupted the meeting to bark complaints, angrily attacking both BAVC staff and the Community Advisory Board representatives who were volunteering their time to moderate the meeting, and then abruptly left the meeting. He refuses to listen to responses, he refuses to listen to anything. His only desire is to be as disruptive as possible and to gather further "evidence" (such as the photo of our multipurpose room above) to use in crafting these phony "news" articles.
The truth is that the luxuries that the previous station management was able to afford, using nearly $1 million per year for any purpose they desired, was much greater than what we are able to afford on our City contract to operate public access television, which is exactly $170,000 per year -- for all staff time, supplies, utilities, trainings, events, services, fees, etc. -- for anything that is not hardware. So services with monthly fees, such as programming delivered live by satellite, are something we must raise additional funds or find work-arounds for (such as the work-around for "Democracy Now!", which requires more work on our part but still provides the program to the community in a timely fashion via download and rebroadcast). It is true, SF Commons staff is working with the producers of "Democracy Now!" to craft an announcement that we will both share with our networks to sponsor "Democracy Now!" in San Francisco to cover the monthly fees for providing such live broadcasts. Meanwhile, we are manually downloading and broadcasting the show so it runs numerous times, on the program's original air date and on the following day. Steve would have you believe otherwise. I'm not sure why he chose this as his bone to pick for the week, but he's gotta dig pretty deep to try to complain.
This is the current schedule for "Democracy Now!":
Monday 4pm, 7pm, 11pm
Tuesday *1am, *5am, *9am, 4pm, 7pm, 11pm
Wednesday *1am, *5am, *9am, 4pm, 7pm, 11pm
Thursday *1am, *5am, *9am, 4pm, 7pm, 11pm
Friday *1am, *5am, *9am, 4pm, 7pm, 11pm
Saturday *1am, *5am, *9am
(*indicates a rebroadcast from the previous day)
Regarding our web site: yes, we offer a program schedule online. http://www.bavc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1884&Itemid=1806 And yes, it requires a lot of work to insert the information for these expected programs one by one in advance of actually receiving the files. And yes, to re-publish and maintain a list of current shows, producers, and links in another format manually and keep it up to date (including managing privacy concerns and producers who do not want their real names published) would require more resources than we have. We are 2.5 people, and we have our hands incredibly full with all of the services we are providing, 45 hours per week, to nearly 200 producers, keeping an entire TV station running with multiple channels and services. But this, as everything else, we are gradually improving upon and building. We inherited a station one year ago that had essentially no web systems. Our new web site will integrate with our broadcast server, which will allow better information access and increased functionality, with show pages for each show, video on demand, ways for people to connect with each other, and plenty more. But building complicated systems like this takes planning, and time, and a whole lot of work; they are not instantaneous. I'm sure Steve knows this, but he doesn't seem to care, he only wants to complain about anything he can think of to complain about.
Meanwhile, Nick Pasquariello continues to send demands and complaints to BAVC, the Department of Technology, and the Sunshine Task Force, generating another mountain of work for BAVC, which means there is less and less time we can spend serving people. We have gone out of our way to respond to Nick (who has demanded instantaneous production of third-party contracts and other information that has nothing to do with City contracts or governance), we've been forced to attend complaint hearings whenever he files a complaint, regardless of whether the complaint is frivolous or under the jurisdiction of the Task Force, and finally, thankfully, the issue is going to the full Ethics Committee, where we expect to have a resolution and dismissal. All of this, while all of the documents available to Nick are sitting here in a box for anyone to inspect; all of this, while the Department of Technology has provided those documents on disks to Nick directly; all of this while Nick has stated publicly numerous times that he is satisfied with the documents he has and does not require any other documents.
Why? Why are Steve and Nick continuously harassing BAVC? It is time for those who are diverting precious resources away from our ability to serve productive producers to respond to why they are doing this, really. Find something productive to do, and let BAVC focus on offering services to the growing community of producers who want to produce their programming and do something productive with their time. Anyone who cares about access to services, effective use of public resources, and the importance of community media in San Francisco should demand the same.
It is true, Steve attended the first 30 minutes of the meeting on Monday evening, which was intended to be a skill share called "Marketing Your Show." He disrupted the meeting to bark complaints, angrily attacking both BAVC staff and the Community Advisory Board representatives who were volunteering their time to moderate the meeting, and then abruptly left the meeting. He refuses to listen to responses, he refuses to listen to anything. His only desire is to be as disruptive as possible and to gather further "evidence" (such as the photo of our multipurpose room above) to use in crafting these phony "news" articles.
The truth is that the luxuries that the previous station management was able to afford, using nearly $1 million per year for any purpose they desired, was much greater than what we are able to afford on our City contract to operate public access television, which is exactly $170,000 per year -- for all staff time, supplies, utilities, trainings, events, services, fees, etc. -- for anything that is not hardware. So services with monthly fees, such as programming delivered live by satellite, are something we must raise additional funds or find work-arounds for (such as the work-around for "Democracy Now!", which requires more work on our part but still provides the program to the community in a timely fashion via download and rebroadcast). It is true, SF Commons staff is working with the producers of "Democracy Now!" to craft an announcement that we will both share with our networks to sponsor "Democracy Now!" in San Francisco to cover the monthly fees for providing such live broadcasts. Meanwhile, we are manually downloading and broadcasting the show so it runs numerous times, on the program's original air date and on the following day. Steve would have you believe otherwise. I'm not sure why he chose this as his bone to pick for the week, but he's gotta dig pretty deep to try to complain.
This is the current schedule for "Democracy Now!":
Monday 4pm, 7pm, 11pm
Tuesday *1am, *5am, *9am, 4pm, 7pm, 11pm
Wednesday *1am, *5am, *9am, 4pm, 7pm, 11pm
Thursday *1am, *5am, *9am, 4pm, 7pm, 11pm
Friday *1am, *5am, *9am, 4pm, 7pm, 11pm
Saturday *1am, *5am, *9am
(*indicates a rebroadcast from the previous day)
Regarding our web site: yes, we offer a program schedule online. http://www.bavc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1884&Itemid=1806 And yes, it requires a lot of work to insert the information for these expected programs one by one in advance of actually receiving the files. And yes, to re-publish and maintain a list of current shows, producers, and links in another format manually and keep it up to date (including managing privacy concerns and producers who do not want their real names published) would require more resources than we have. We are 2.5 people, and we have our hands incredibly full with all of the services we are providing, 45 hours per week, to nearly 200 producers, keeping an entire TV station running with multiple channels and services. But this, as everything else, we are gradually improving upon and building. We inherited a station one year ago that had essentially no web systems. Our new web site will integrate with our broadcast server, which will allow better information access and increased functionality, with show pages for each show, video on demand, ways for people to connect with each other, and plenty more. But building complicated systems like this takes planning, and time, and a whole lot of work; they are not instantaneous. I'm sure Steve knows this, but he doesn't seem to care, he only wants to complain about anything he can think of to complain about.
Meanwhile, Nick Pasquariello continues to send demands and complaints to BAVC, the Department of Technology, and the Sunshine Task Force, generating another mountain of work for BAVC, which means there is less and less time we can spend serving people. We have gone out of our way to respond to Nick (who has demanded instantaneous production of third-party contracts and other information that has nothing to do with City contracts or governance), we've been forced to attend complaint hearings whenever he files a complaint, regardless of whether the complaint is frivolous or under the jurisdiction of the Task Force, and finally, thankfully, the issue is going to the full Ethics Committee, where we expect to have a resolution and dismissal. All of this, while all of the documents available to Nick are sitting here in a box for anyone to inspect; all of this, while the Department of Technology has provided those documents on disks to Nick directly; all of this while Nick has stated publicly numerous times that he is satisfied with the documents he has and does not require any other documents.
Why? Why are Steve and Nick continuously harassing BAVC? It is time for those who are diverting precious resources away from our ability to serve productive producers to respond to why they are doing this, really. Find something productive to do, and let BAVC focus on offering services to the growing community of producers who want to produce their programming and do something productive with their time. Anyone who cares about access to services, effective use of public resources, and the importance of community media in San Francisco should demand the same.
For more information:
http://bavc.org/sfcommons
Most Probably for privacy reasons a list with contact info is not posted. But then Steve wants this info so he can put everybody on his email list for his latest crackpot scheme. Steve Zeltzer, have you no shame? If Steve wants to watch Democracy Now he could certainly volunteer to underwrite it and fork over the $150 a month. It has been brought to my attention via a cursory check of the Secretary of State's website that Steve Zeltzer's nonprofit organization is not in good graces and in a state of suspension with the Secretary of State, so how is he going to run a public access channel when he can't even run a simple nonprofit in good graces with the powers that be?
Give BAVC a break! They're doing the best they can with the resources at hand.
Give BAVC a break! They're doing the best they can with the resources at hand.
Mr. Zeltzer:
One of the wonderful things about the internet is that it offers anyone the opportunity to state his views. But it does not guarantee anyone an audience. You have to have something that makes sense, is worthy of reading and appeals to the reader for that to happen. Get off your high horse and go with the flow. Everyone else is! BAVC is the operator of Public Access in San Francisco, period. The most qualified people were given the franchise. Don't be a poor loser! Suck it in!
Keep yourself occupied producing that labor show of yours that no one watches. Maybe people will watch when you start talking TO people, instead of talking AT people. There is a difference you know.
One of the wonderful things about the internet is that it offers anyone the opportunity to state his views. But it does not guarantee anyone an audience. You have to have something that makes sense, is worthy of reading and appeals to the reader for that to happen. Get off your high horse and go with the flow. Everyone else is! BAVC is the operator of Public Access in San Francisco, period. The most qualified people were given the franchise. Don't be a poor loser! Suck it in!
Keep yourself occupied producing that labor show of yours that no one watches. Maybe people will watch when you start talking TO people, instead of talking AT people. There is a difference you know.
Firstly I think it is a mistake for an organization such as BAVC to respond to Steve Zeltzers post.
Secondly in their post they admit they have to hire people to run their studio. As a former producer at SF public access TV I want to work with and see some of the old staff. It is my recollection that any new operator was required by the contract to hire some of the old staff. I haven't seen any of them, and they had already established a repertoire with us, and now their gone. Bad, bad, bad.
And I have talked with many former staff and one of them says "that each and everytime I applied for a job at BAVC I was rejected." I will never use public access TV in SF ever again until BAVC does the right thing and hire some of the old staff to run their studio.
I like the staff at BAVC, but I learned and have been told by other producers that they just don't seem to care. I have also been told by some of the Flash studio folks that staff at BAVC seem irritated by the live show folks.
As far as I am concerned public access TV in San Francisco is gone, thanks to the politicians and Gavin Newsom. I admit Mr. ZB had issues, but they ran that station for over ten years, and quite effectively dealt with the likes of Steve Zeltzer, IW and or Ace W.
Secondly in their post they admit they have to hire people to run their studio. As a former producer at SF public access TV I want to work with and see some of the old staff. It is my recollection that any new operator was required by the contract to hire some of the old staff. I haven't seen any of them, and they had already established a repertoire with us, and now their gone. Bad, bad, bad.
And I have talked with many former staff and one of them says "that each and everytime I applied for a job at BAVC I was rejected." I will never use public access TV in SF ever again until BAVC does the right thing and hire some of the old staff to run their studio.
I like the staff at BAVC, but I learned and have been told by other producers that they just don't seem to care. I have also been told by some of the Flash studio folks that staff at BAVC seem irritated by the live show folks.
As far as I am concerned public access TV in San Francisco is gone, thanks to the politicians and Gavin Newsom. I admit Mr. ZB had issues, but they ran that station for over ten years, and quite effectively dealt with the likes of Steve Zeltzer, IW and or Ace W.
This "former producer" who is doing damage control for former Community Access CEO Zane Blaney and the BAVC bosses is
now depressed about the management of privatized community access stations Channel 29 and 76.
BAVC with a revenue stream of $3 million a year with a large amount of money from the City and County of San Francisco
has flagrantly violated the contract with the city but their buddies Newsom and the City Attorney Dennis Herrera refuse to enforce the contract.
The city finance studio at BAVC is unused despite the contract they signed to encourage use of community access. Also BAVC shuts down any production for community access at 7:00PM which limits working people who who work during the day from using the studio. The other activities at BAVC are still operating while the access to community access producers and programmers is denied.
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now depressed about the management of privatized community access stations Channel 29 and 76.
BAVC with a revenue stream of $3 million a year with a large amount of money from the City and County of San Francisco
has flagrantly violated the contract with the city but their buddies Newsom and the City Attorney Dennis Herrera refuse to enforce the contract.
The city finance studio at BAVC is unused despite the contract they signed to encourage use of community access. Also BAVC shuts down any production for community access at 7:00PM which limits working people who who work during the day from using the studio. The other activities at BAVC are still operating while the access to community access producers and programmers is denied.
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#1 Community TV Station Seeks Interns
Date: 2010-08-26, 1:30PM
Pacifica Community TV has More For You! Act Fast!
Right Now, in beautiful Pacifica, we have an amazing program of REAL WORLD PRODUCTION TRAINING, YOU WONT GET ELSEWHERE!
In one semester our interns will do the following jobs: Camera Operator, Floor Manager, Lighting Director, C.G, Assistant Director, Editor, Technical Director and Director. Students even produce their very own program which airs to over 40,000 local viewers!
ALSO SEEKING COMPUTER EXPERIENCED FOLKS FOR OUR MEDIA LAB!
This is simply the most experience you will get hands down.
650-355-8001 (Call Martin now..but before you call read below)
* PCT interns are required to work a minimum 3 shifts per week (shifts are 2-6pm or 6-10pm weekdays) and will be required to learn all aspects of work in a TV station including things you will not like! This is a NON-paid production internship work experience program. Must be available Mon.-Fri. for interviews ...Must bring resume and be available for complete semester...only the most serious will be accepted so if you need this, put your game face on.
Location: Pacifica
This is a part-time job.
This is at a non-profit organization.
This is an internship job
Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
Please, no phone calls about this job!
Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.
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