Live@5:25 Not Just For TV

October 12, 2011

For 20 years, Channel 17/Town Meeting TV has provided a regular half-hour Live call in show every weekday. "Live@5:25" is a forum for politicians, citizens and community organizations to interact with viewers in a live televised forum.  Now, this program comes to you on the web via live streaming.  So now, if you can't get to your TV you can still participate at: http://www.cctv.org/watch-tv/live-at-525 and call-in to 862-3966 with your comments and questions.  

FCC Commissioner Copps' Farewell Speech

October 05, 2011

Yesterday, at the Future of Music Coalition's annual conference, the public interest community saluted FCC Comuissioner Michael Copps's ten years' of service.   Commissioner Copps, who will leave his office in another month or two, gave a rousing valedictory, which is linked here.

Live@5:25 Streamed Online

October 03, 2011

For 20 years, Channel 17/Town Meeting TV has provided a regular half-hour Live call in show every weekday. "Live@5:25" is a forum for politicians, citizens and community organizations to interact with viewers in a live televised forum.  Now, this program comes to you on the web via live streaming.  So, if you can't get to your TV you can still participate at:
http://www.cctv.org/watch-tv/live-at-525 

BT Offers Low Income Incentive Program for Internet Subscribers

September 29, 2011

BT Edu-Net offers high-speed internet service to qualified families with children in the Burlington School District at a reduced price.

Take Back the Digital Space and Unhinge The Shackles of The Online World.

September 21, 2011

 

This morning, new changes to Facebook unleashed a slew of responses from people who feel that their "living room" has been rearranged in the middle of the night without their permission.  The truth is, as important as it has become to our social, political and economic lives, most of what we do on the Internet is not Public Space but rather privately controlled corporate space. We all "pay" for use of this space with our digital information.

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CCTV Receives NEH Grant to Support Community Archives

CCTV Center for Media & Democracy is pleased to announce receipt of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant alongside 32 peer archival institutions across the country. This $49,927 grant award will support efforts to preserve and expand access to audio/visual community history materials in the CCTV Archives. Read more about this opportunity here!

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