British Columbia
Vancouver Community Television Association
The VCTA is a non-profit society that produces VcommunityTV, EVOTV and the Sound Therapy Arts and Media Project for broadcast on the community channel Shaw cable 4 in Vancouver and cable 11 in Victoria
Vancouver Community Television Association
The Vancouver Community Television Association produces an hour of weekly content broadcast on Shaw Cable 4 in Vancouver and Cable 11 in Victoria and on the Novus Entertainment Network
Chetwynd Community TV (CHET TV)
Combined radio and TV service.
ICTV Independent Community Television Cooperative
offer training and equipment for the production of television that reflects the local community. ICTV offers a place for voices and ideas that are excluded from the commercial and public broadcast systems. ICTV programming airs on Shaw Cable 4 in the Lower Mainland.
Ash-Creek Television Society
Contact: David Durksen Distributes OTA as well as giving their feed to Copper Valley cable. Airs a community bulletin text service, local business sponsorship messages, council meetings, election coverage, and special events such as car rallies, parades. No paid staff.
workingtv
working TV is a labour television program broadcast weekly on community access television in the province of British Columbia, Canada. Between 1995 and 1998 the Vision network broadcast 30 of our shows to a national audience across Canada. We are also broadcast on other community access stations across Canada and the United States, and ( at least once! ) on a kibbutz in Israel. Programs have been translated and screened in Korea and soon, in Japan. We have been on air since May 1 1993 and produce regular weekly half hour programs as well as longer programs for broadcast during special events. Several of our productions have won awards.
Valemount Community Television
VCTV is run by the Valemount Entertainment Society, a non-profit society which is administered by a volunteer Board of Directors. It is a community-based organization run independently of any level of government. Our motto is simple: Don't watch television. Make it. VCTV is a 100% community funded television, so stay off our lawn!
BowenTV
BowenTV is an internet based community channel serving the community of Bowen Island, BC.
CACTUS asks CRTC to reject Shaw takeover of community owned cable cooperative
The deadline for intervening in Shaw's attempt to takeover Campbell River Television was today. CRTV is one of Canada's few remaining community owned cable cooperatives. The takeover has split the community and called into question how non-commercial media organizations are regulated.
Amidst accusations of regulatory non-compliance and possible illegality, intervenors from across Canada have been demanding that the takeover be stopped.
What follows is the CACTUS submission.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Re: Broadcasting Public Notice CRTC 2008-1187-9
Shaw Cablesystems Application to buy CRTV (Campbell River Television)
Dears Sirs and Mesdames,
1)I am writing on behalf of the Canadian Association for Community Television Users and Stations (CACTUS), which is building a bilingual national membership of independent community television channels, cable co-op community television channels, some (typically smaller) private cable companies that still practice community access television, and the public who uses and watch them.1 In preparing this intervention, CACTUS consulted members of the “Save CRTV” committee in Campbell River, and draws on the expertise of:
Catherine Edwards, who has travelled the globe researching models of community-access television during the shooting of the documentary series My TV, Your TV, Our TV.
Michael Lithgow, whose masters thesis developed a framework for assessing the effectiveness of community access television channels.
Members of the Community Media Education Society and Independent
Community TV of Vancouver, who have for ten years tenaciously continued to operate an independent community TV corporation despite enormous legislative and financial difficulties.
The Fédération des télévisions communautaires autonomes du Québec, the professional association representing 40 independent community television channels in Quebec.
Fearless TV: Television from Canada’s Poorest Neighbourhood
Fearless TV was born in the poverty and resilience of Vancouver’s Downtown East Side (DTES), Canada’s poorest and most vulnerable neighbourhood. Occupying a 25 block radius a little east of Vancouver’s business district, the DTES is home to over 5,000 intravenous drug users, and staggering levels of poverty, HIV infection rates, and social malaise. But it is also home to a vibrant creative community of residents, activists and artists. Fearless TV is television made in the DTES by people who live and work there.
The show was created on the heels of television activism workshops offered this Spring and last Fall by local organizer Sid Tan, founder of Access TV and long time community television activist. Tan explained that the workshops were designed to introduce people to community television and how to use it as a tool for social and political change. The response was so positive, they decided to make a show.
Fearless TV brings together creative resources from a number of community groups -- the DTES Community Arts Network (DTES-CAN), des media, Access TV and Gallery Gachet. Together, they are working to share the stories and points of view of the people who live in the DTES with the wider community.
