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Save Public Access at TVCTV!
Round 2 is on Thursday, October 28th at the Village Baptist Church - 1:30 pm
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On Sept 9, 2010 the members of the PEG Commission tabled the vote on the MACC
proposed near elimination of Public Access in Washington County.  On the 28th, the
PEG will have not 1 but 5 options that MACC has proposed - excluding information
provided by the public, would not allow TVCTV to comment and has been designed by
MACC to be so expensive - that the PEG would not approve it.  Their options put the
amount of staff, square footage and costs at well above where it is today.
After Sept. 9th and having been instructed to come
back with a plan that allowed a meaningful public
access program, MACC came up with 5 proposals.
Board of Commissioners as of February 2010       Click here for their email and phone #'s

Representing:                Name                                Title                           

Banks                            Mark Gregg                      City Councilor       
Beaverton                     Cathy Stanton                  City Councilor  
Cornelius                      Bob Ferrie                         City Councilor
Durham                         Gery Schirado                  Mayor
Forest Grove                Larry Hatch                       MACC Commissioner
Gaston                           Margaret Bell                   City Recorder
Hillsboro                        Erik Jensen                      Director, Admin Dept.
King City                        Ron Shay                           Mayor
Lake Oswego              Bill Tierney                        City Councilor
North Plains                 Ed Andrilenas                   City Councilor
Rivergrove                    Arne Nyberg                     MACC Commissioner
Tigard                            Marland Henderson        City Councilor
Tualatin                         Chris Barhyte                   City Councilor / MACC Chair
Washington County   Rob Massar                       Asst. County Administrator
CALL OR EMAIL YOUR PEG REP,
MACC OR TVCTV today
This will force the cancellation of potentially 95% of all productions by community producers
and the public will get pretty much only what MACC wants you to hear.
No more cultural, diverse, inspirational programs by the people.
The number of producers and programs that will be impacted is too extensive to list
here.    If you are a Comcast viewer and have seen your favorite program on channel 11,
21 or 23 or Verizon/Frontier channel 22 and it originated from TVCTV, then it likely will
impact your program.

Contacts:

Voice your concerns, comments about the suggested change:   Help@SaveTVCTV.org

Provide support, sponsorship or to join the fight: MoreHelp@SaveTVCTV.org

To send a message to any producer, program, TVCTV, MACC or PEG member:
Comment@SaveTVCTV.org
MACC - 503-645-7365
MACC@MACCOR.ORG
Email Comments
Help@SaveTVCTV.org
Option #1: No public access, only playback and sponsored
programs.  This includes no MACC "created" public access and no
little studio for the public to use, nor staff to help manage it.
Option #2 (same as the original option): One walk-in
closet studio, no live, no equipment use, no use of the edit
systems, no training, no use of the new studio, remove one
channel that goes to government, staff cut to 2 people, reduce
public hours to 30 hrs/wk during the business day Tues - Fri. Both
staff mostly work on MACC decided and controlled "select"
programs that they choose to make "Community Programs" without
the community and excluding most producers' shows and favor
others they, with discrimination, prefer.
Option #3: #2 plus: adds live broadcast, equipment use
added, take home edit systems only, extremely limited training, no
use of the new studio, hours reduced to 24 from 30 and moved to
week day evenings, remove one channel that goes to
government, add 2 people.
Option #4: #3 plus: share use of large studio, equipment use,
access to 2 on site edit systems, limited training, remove one
channel that goes to government, add 2 more people, MACC
controlled community programs continue.
Option #5: #4 plus: share use of large studio, exchange live
link for medium studio, access to 2 more on site edit systems, add
part time trainer, one public channel still going to government,
add 1 more person, MACC controlled programs continue.
Public Proposal: 2 staff, hours of 5p-10p M-F & 10a-6p on Sat
(28 hours), use of large studio & meeting rooms, reduce from 7 to
4 total on site edit systems, new medium sized studio, equipment
checkout (including 3 mobile edit systems and truck rental - if kept
by MACC), Training, checkout and support by retained staff that
already have the training to support the public, live capabilities,
no live link studio - All at barely over the space and cost as #5
Public Comment: We believe MACC has over spent, under saved and
has gone out of their way to ensure the public is removed from TVCTV - the
ones paying for the program directly and indirectly.  The unregulated
government program is now taking advantage of the public & PEG

We believe that a full state supported audit is necessary, whether the PEG
agrees with our proposal or not as it will certainly save the PEG even more.   
We do not blame the BSD or PEG for this situation.  The BSD has it's reasons
and it's probably related to MACC somehow. The PEG for the most part has to
believe MACC, the agency that works for them, supposedly, is being honest, fair
and doing what's in the best interests of the PEG.  

The SPAC or Save Public Access Committee was created to ensure that public
access is saved in a meaningful way and steps will be taken, if needed, to
protect the public and their rights to use the airwaves to speak their minds.

Understand that MACC has been planning the downsizing and destruction of
public access to their own admission for over three (3) years.  They have
known for 18 months that they were going to have to move.  Yet no steps were
taken to preserve funding, save for the move or make any attempt to inform the
public what was going on - and from what we can tell, is still not disclosing
everything to them.  Information obtained from TVCTV staff that were
threatened with their jobs if they provide any insight or information gave us
data about MACC's real plans to destroy public access.

We ploy  you to come to the October 28, 2010 Hearing at 1:30 pm in Beaverton
(see above) and provide presence support, testimony or email your comments
to MACC via email or phone.