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UPSTREAM ONLINE: The eNewsletter of Access SF |
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In This Issue:
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December 2005
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ELECTION 2005 SERIES WRAP-UP: A League of Women Voters SF - Access SF Presentation
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PUBLIC ACCESS PROGRAM NOTE Dec. '05: National Conference for Media Reform - 20 hours of Unique Coverage
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SNOWSTORM CAMPAIGN: Alliance for Communtiy Media launches savemyfreespeech.net
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BOARD ANNOUNCEMENT - GIVE OR GET POLICY: New Fundraising Direction for Access SF
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Access SF recently concluded an extensive two-week presentation
schedule on Cable Channel 29 of ELECTION 2005, the station's
nonpartisan pre-election series with the League of Women Voters of San
Francisco. Scheduled from October 24th-Nov. 7th, ELECTION 2005 was our
fourth and most comprehensive round of production and programming with
the League to date. The series ran daily and included over forty hours
of playback. The following is a summary of highlights from ELECTION
2005:
• PRO / CON DISCUSSIONS: The San Francisco Ballot Measures
Produced at the Access SF Studios on September 17th. Four 30-minute
programs that presented (8) debates on local propositions that went
before San Francisco voters on November 8th.
• CANDIDATE FORUMS
- Assessor-Recorder - Recorded at the SF LGBT Community Center, Oct. 20th
- City Treasurer - Recorded at the Koret Auditorium of the SF Main Public Library, Oct. 27th
Moderated by Cheryl Jennings, News Anchor, ABC7/KGO-TV. Access SF
provided FIRST TIME field coverage of both Candidate Forums using its
newly developed Mobile Access Studio, a state of the art equipment
package designed to support field coverage of community events.
• CANDIDATE INTERVIEW
Produced at the Access SF Studios on October 18th. Moderated by Samson
Wong, Editor-in-Chief, Asianweek. A 30-minute question and answer
session with Incumbent City Attorny Candidate, City Attorney, Dennis
Herrera, who ran uncontested for a second term.
• SFGTV/Cable Channel 26 also ran ELECTION 2005 in its entirety during the days leading up to the Nov. 8th election.
• Access SF also ran a series of PSAs on Channel 29 from the Video Voter Project. For more info, go to: http://www.videovoter.org/samplevideos
• Audio Downloads were available online at the League's website: http://www.lwvsf.org/pages/debates.html
• For more background on Access SF's collaboration with the League, go to: http://www.accessf.org/lwv-sf/index.html
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Following a spate of funding challenges that unfolded during Summer ‘05
and a recent four year extension of the Comcast cable franchise by the
San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the Board Of Directors of the San
Francisco Community Television Corporation voted unanimously at its
Annual Meeting to instill a mandatory GIVE OR GET fundraising policy
both for individual board members and the collective board.
The policy approved by the Board on October 17th reads as follows:
• As evidence of commitment to the mission, vision and values of Access
SF, each individual member of the Board of Directors will make an
annual pledge for a significant personal financial gift to the
organization.
• Because Access SF believes the size of the gift should be
proportional to each director’s capacity and resources, the minimum
amount for each pledge shall be set at either $250 or 1% of the
director’s estimated pre-tax income for the year.
• Using this formula, Access SF’s (12) person Board of Directors will
contribute no less than $3,000 annually to the Access SF operating
budget.
• Further, the Board as a whole pledges to raise from other sources an
amount equal to 4 times the aggregate of their annual pledges for the
year, an amount that is projected to be no less than $12,000.
• Board members may pay their pledge in installments as long as the full amount is paid prior to the end of the fiscal year.
• Prospective board members will be informed of this mandatory policy
on board giving and their pledges will be secured when they join the
board.
At a planning retreat in March ’05, the formation of an Access SF Board
of Directors GIVE OR GET policy was identified by the Board as one of
several strategies that can help the station diversify its funding base
in the current fiscal year. Currently, the station is also actively
soliciting support from paid underwriters, and it is cultivating a
local base for fee-based production services among nonprofit, education
and government sector clients.
In early 2006, Access SF will launch a number of new fundraising
endeavors that are long term and designed to create a sustainable
funding model for the future of public access television in San
Francisco.
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During December, Access SF is pleased to present 20 hours of coverage
from the National Conference for Media Reform (St. Louis, May 2005),
produced by Chicago Access Network. There are total of ten installments
in this series, and we will present them daily from Noon to 2:00PM,
Monday through Friday, December 5th through December 16th. Below is a
detailed scheduled of the series on Cable Channel 29:
• Mon. 12/05 - Installment 01 - Opening Plenary: A Call to Action
w/Prof. Robert McChesney, Free Press founder; Mark Cooper, Consumer
Federation of America; Malkia Cyril, Youth Media Council; Amy Goodman,
Democracy Now!; Janine Jackson, FAIR
• Tue. 12/06 - Installment 02 - News, Information, and Corporate Media
w/Phil Donahue, television host; Norman Solomon, Institute for Public
Accuracy; Juan Gonzalez, New York Daily News; Naomi Klein, author and
journalist
• Wed. 12/07 - Installment 03 - Telecom Act: Gearing Up for the Big One
w/Russ Newman, Free Press; Lauren-Glenn Davitian, CCTV Center for Media
Democracy; John Arnold, Wayne State University; Mark Cooper, Consumer
Federation of America
• Thu. 12/08 - Installment 04 - FCC: Past and Present
w/Gloria Tristani, United Church of Christ, Office of Communication;
Commissioner Michael Copps, FCC; Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein, FCC;
Nicholas Johnson, U. Iowa
• Fri. 12/09 - Installment 05 - Broadband: Media Politics in a New Era
w/R. Sean McLaughlin, Alliance for Community Media; Jeff Chester,
Center for Digital Democracy, David Olson, Cable Communications, City
of Portland, OR; Kavita Singh, Community Technolgy Center Network
• Mon. 12/12 - Installment 06 - Policies for Advancing Independent Media
w/Ben Scott, Free Press; Carol Pierson, National Federation of
Community Broadcasters; Anthony Riddle, Alliance for Community Media;
Sascha Meinrath, Acorn Worker Collective/Champaign-Urbana Community
Wireless Network
• Tue. 12/13 - Installment 07 - Saturday Evening Keynote Event (Part One)
• Wed. 12/14 - Installment 08 - Saturday Evening Keynote Event (Part Two)
Speakers and performers include: Air America host Al Franken •
Congresswoman Diane Watson • FCC Commissioners Michael Copps and
Jonathan Adelstein • DJ and activist Davey D • Author and commentator
Jim Hightower • Scholar Robert McChesney • Musician Patti Smith
• Thu. 12/15 - Installment 09 - Winning Community Media Through Cable Franchise Renewals
Part of Concurrent Action Clinics, hands-on workshops designed to help
attendees plan a media reform action in their own community.
• Fri. 12/16 - Installment 10 - Closing Plenary - The Fight of Our Lives
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Access SF is funded, in part, through cable operator grants
administered by DTIS, the Department of Telecommunications &
Information Services of the City & County of San Francisco. We
gratefully acknowledge the Access SF membership community & program
partners for their continuing support of public access. Special thanks
to the following funders and underwriters that have supported the
station during the 04-05 fiscal year: JVS, Film/Tape World, David Perry
& Associates, Shanghai 1930,David B. Gold Foundation, YouthMAP, CTN
Bay Area, & Adobe.
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