Encourage Your Senators to Sign US Senator Edward Markey’s Letter in Support of Community Media
US Senator Edward Markey of Massachusetts knows community media and why it exists. He was on the House committee that helped enact the 1984 Cable Act that supported PEG across the United States. That’s why he’s outraged at the actions of (…)
Community Media Day is this Saturday
I hope everyone has a great Community Media Day this Saturday, October 20th!
The State of Massachusetts has proclaimed the day (thanks for this Bob Kelly!). If your community is celebrating, let us know by sending an email to 1020@communitymediaday.com.
ACM Northeast and Central States Regional Conferences
My thanks to everyone who attended (…)
ACM NE Region Conference & Trade Show
I’m looking forward to visiting with exhibitors and seeing presentations at the ACM Northeast Region Conference in Schenectady, NY this week.
The city along the Mohawk River is home to Proctors Theatre, a media arts center which not only hosts public access television services, but was also the home to (…)
ACM’s Public Policy Action Update & Upcoming Call
If you haven’t done so yet, please look at ACM’s Public Policy Action Update on the FCC that was sent out this last week. We’ll be talking about next steps for all PEG channels this Thursday on our regularly scheduled public policy call. If you haven’t been on (…)
Federal Assault on Local Media and Municipalities Continues
The FCC is continuing its assault on local communities and local media. The FCC has announced two agenda items for its September 26th meeting that will cripple city and county budgets and perhaps defund franchise fees.
The more immediate Order would bar localities from charging rent for the use (…)
Deadline: November 1, 2018
The Alliance for Community Media will hold its Annual Conference and Trade Show at the Downtown Hilton in Portland, OR on July 10-12, 2019. The event will gather approximately 400 community media practitioners and volunteers working in Public Educational and Government Access media, youth media, community radio, podcasting and other community-based media (…)
Changing Society for the Better
Here’s some interesting late summer reading for you before the unofficial end of summer next Monday:
The Stanford Social Innovation Review published an article recently on the potential that millennials (those born between 1981 and 1996) have for changing institutions and changing society for the better.
Particularly interesting to me is the idea (…)
Community Media Day is Two Months Away
It’s August 20th…just two scant months away from Community Media Day 2019 on October 20th!
This is the third year community media organizations around the country will be celebrating the work we do with film festivals, open houses, concerts, proclamations and other special events.
What will you be doing?
Now is a (…)
Support ACM’s Proposals for SXSW
ACM has put together two panel proposals for the SXSW education conference in Austin, TX for spring 2019. It’s part of our effort to promote community media to different communities across the country. SXSW has a voting procedure to help select panels and we’d like you to help us by clicking (…)
What an extraordinary week in Baltimore!
Thank you to our thirty vendors and sponsors, the donors who stepped forward to support our Foundation and Public Policy work, and all the folks who came from around the country to take part in our National Conference, #ACMBmore.
We heard a lot of great feedback from people at the conference. (…)
