ANNUAL REPORT OF SERVICES JULY 1, 2005 – JUNE 30, 2006 CCTV’s MISSION STATEMENT Empowering people to communicate and providing community information through television CCTV VALUES Democracy and the First Amendment All people in a democracy have the right and responsibility to take part in the decisions that affect them and their communities. Freedom of speech is vital to a healthy democracy and is guaranteed in the First Amendment. CCTV provides the community with the op- portunity for political, cultural, artistic, spiritual, and individual expression on television. Community Decision-making Freedom of expression alone is not enough to ensure a healthy democracy. Citizens must also enter into active discussion and debate in order to participate in solving problems for the common good. CCTV promotes the use of non-commercial channels 21, 22, 23 and production facilities as an electronic forum for discussing issues and solving problems. Access to Information A well informed, actively involved citizenry makes more responsible decisions. CCTV televises local government meetings, activities of local schools and service-related infor- mation to stimulate an active dialogue among elected officials, schools and local citizens. Diversity and Inclusiveness Democracy is most effective in a society in which all members can participate. CCTV encourages understanding and collaboration across barriers of race, culture, language, class, gender and age. Media Literacy Community TV offers an alternative to commercial television. CCTV provides the training and tools necessary for people to become knowledgeable and effective communicators, able to view television critically and to use that medium to tell their own stories. Table of Contents Executive Director’s Report........1 Highlights 05 - 06 ........................2, 3 Community Use of CCTV ...........4, 5 CCTV Board of Directors CCTV Staff July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2006 July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2006 CCTV Productions ......................6, 7 Alan Bushong, Executive Director Dave Moss, President Community Outreach .................8, 9 Soha Badiei, Staff Producer Chuck Zawel, Treasurer through June 2006 Training ......................................10 Pat Henderson, Access Coordinator Alan Heywood, Treasurer Equipment ...................................11 Greg Hiltz, Training Coordinator Feb. through Jan. 07 Ken Hook, Staff Producer Sharon Gray, Secretary CCTV’s Market Value .................11 Rosa Leonardi, Cathy Clark Organizations Using CCTV .......12 Community Development Coordinator Geraldine Hammond John Strauch, Programming Coordinator Ron Cooper Lela Taylor, Office Administrator Randy Franke Julie Turner, Community Facilitator Dave Henderson Mike Wilhelm, IT Specialist Executive Director Report CCTV and Our Community Step Up to New Challenges Legislation, Federal or State, Must Serve Our Community I thank many of you for helping CCTV step up to represent the needs of our community in legislation related to cable television franchising. Your contacts to our U. S. Senators Gordon Smith and Ron Wyden and to Congresswoman Darlene Hooley, joining work by advocates across the country, have made a difference. Together we’ve said that America’s largest cable and telephone companies have responsibilities to our communities when they want to do business in our neighborhoods. Here’s what happened in the past year. America’s largest telephone companies promoted legislation that would allow them to bypass the local franchises required of cable TV companies. They claimed that local franchises kept them from competing in cable TV and high speed internet, driving up prices. They wanted to cut back or eliminate their payments to use public space and to fund organizations like CCTV. They built a highly-funded, effective PR campaign. Although their claims are dubious, they built up great momentum. Advocates across the nation went to work, including here in our community. Our voices have been heard as never before, as legislation was changed and is still under discussion. We maintain: 1. Our local governments must keep the right to manage local public rights-of-way. These officials know our community and work on our behalf. 2. Telephone and cable companies must pay our community to use our public rights-of-way to conduct their business. It’s fair and our community needs the income. 3. Channels and funding for CCTV and public, educational and government access must come from the companies providing cable TV services for us to serve everyone. Advances at CCTV: Synergy in Operation In late August of 2005, Synergy installed CCTV’s new computer-based channel delivery Master Control. Like many leaps in technology, the change took time. Now our community is seeing the benefits. CCTV can schedule more channel hours, better provide emergency information, promote programs and show informational short programs. Members of our community can submit programs on DVD or, if they edit on computers, as a computer file. Thanks for bearing with us as we took this step forward. New productions CCTV added several important productions, starting with the Red Cross Disaster Kit program, still available on CCTV’s web site. For the first time, CCTV televised live from the Salem Senior Center featuring federal and state legislative forums on Medicare and Disability. In March CCTV televised six games from the OSAA State Basketball Championship, including two with West Salem High Boys team. Two months later, CCTV televised six state tournament baseball and softball games, including all three baseball championships from Volcano Stadium. Let me again offer my heartfelt thanks to amazing CCTV volunteers, board and staff and to the City of Salem and Marion County for their continued support. Working together we continue to build the dream-come-true. UnderstandinG MEDICARE PART D TOWN HALL Alan Bushong, CCTV Executive Director and volunteer Steve Hande operate the new Tricaster to provide the first live TV program and web stream of the Medicare Part D Town Hall from the Salem Senior Center. The forum was hosted by Congresswoman Darlene Hooley and included two other U.S. Representatives, Peter DeFazio and Earl Blumenauer (sitting in the fore ground) - three of Oregon’s five Congressional representatives. -1- 2005–2006 Highlights CCTV THANKS 148 VOLUNTEERS ELECTION PROGRAMMING CCTV staff recognized and thanked 148 LOCAL: volunteers at its 16th Annual Volunteer Rec- CCTV and the Marion and Polk League of ognition held at Pringle Hall. These terrific Women Voters produced five candidate forums volunteers helped CCTV produce 742 hours for contested Salem and Marion County races in the May Primary Election. The forums, en- of community programming last year includ- titled Your Vote Counts, included: ing: Salem City Council and Budget Commit- CCTV PROGRAMMING STATISTICS • Salem Mayor and Wards 2 and 8 tee meetings, Marion County Commission • Marion County Commission Position 2 CCTV Produced Programs.....742 hours and Budget Committee meetings, Salem- • Marion County Assessor Keizer School Board, school sports and music Locally Produced Programs..649 hours events, marching band competitions, State Total New Programming.......2156 hours VIDEO VOTER GUIDE: Music, the Awesome 3000, Jaycee Relays, H. CCTV recorded and televised a short campaign S. Graduations, local election programming, Total Programming........10,288 hours statements for local candidates in the May judging video awards. primary and created a Video Voters’ Guide with 15 candidate statements for the channels and the web. State: CCTV AUCTION CCTV and the Oregon League of Women CCTV held an auction and earned $4000 selling outdated computers, monitors and Voters produced a Supreme Court Candidate other equipment. Ray Larson, Portland Community Media’s Engineer (below right) Forum. CCTV coordinated schedules with took the part of the auctioneer. The funds will be used to purchase new equipment. other Oregon Community Television Access Centers and an ad was placed in the state-wide Oregonian newspaper listing air times. The League generated the questions and provided the moderators and time-keepers. CCTV, in conjunction with Willamette Univer- sity and the Associated Press, televised the Gubernatorial Candidate Forum for the May primary election. CCTV worked with other Oregon Community TV Centers to televise the Forum around the state, and an ad was placed in the state-wide Oregonian newspaper listing air times. Your Vote Counts, the Video Voters’ Guide, the Gubernatorial and the Supreme Court Candidate Forums were streamed on CCTV’s web site to provide 24/7 access; and links were provided to the partnering organizations of Marion-Polk League of Women Voters and the CCTV HOSTS HUMAN RIGHTS Day Oregon League of Women Voters. After participating in several strategy sessions held by the Salem Human Rights and Relations Commission to combat discrimination, CCTV hosted a production day for human rights advo- cates to create positive messages about cultural diversity in Salem. The Commission partnered with CCTV for this community event. Festival OF LIGHTS PARADE SIMULCAST IN SALEM AND PORTLAND CCTV coordinated the simulcast of the Festival of Lights Parade in Salem and Portland. Oregon Legislative Media transmitted CCTV’s live signal over the Wireless Instructional Network to Multnomah Community TV in Gresham and Portland Community Media who aired the Parade live. Portland Gen- Salem Mayor, Janet Taylor, responds to a question from the League of Women Voters - while her eral Electric