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While the idea makes perfect sense to us -- and is based on a successful model taken up by Denver public access -- those who have been producing these shows since the early 90s, like 53-year-old roller-skate daddy, David Miles Jr. of "Skatin' Place," aren't comfortable with the idea of producing their shows without the hand-holding of Access SF's current full-time studio staff.
Basically, this is a small-scale case of old media raging against the dying of the light, and these producers should be happy to potentially grow their audience via the web because, um, who watches public access anymore?
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And our favorite nudist 9/11 discussion group, "My Naked Truth."
Just you wait 'til Matt Smith at the SF Weekly finds out about this!
All of this hullaballoo over public access tv (which has a role to play in SF and has done so, brilliantly, for years) is too little too late. When AT&T wanted to get into the tv delivered over a wire business, they wanted one statewide franchise, unlike Comcast Cable and Time Warner, who had to negotiate franchises city-by-city (or county-by-county, depending).
As the Democrats in the legislature raised their special interest cash, they realized after soaking AT&T and watching Comcast fight the bill, they realized they could get MORE money if they invalidated all local franchises on behalf of the cable TV industry. They did, and suddenly all those local provisions to accommodate the public that was giving them an exclusive monopoly on local cable TV (with gov't access, public access etc.)
So all the caterwauling by the Board is for nothing, because your Democrats in the Legislature voted for this, and did so claiming "not to know" what was gonna happen. Toss in a dose of the usual SF City "overpaid know nothing bureaucracy" and you have a nice big feast of FAIL, all for your enjoyment.
Sure much of the programming is frightful or whatever. But back in the late 80s/early 90s, a group of comedians locally produced a great show, and many of them went on to write for SNL and the Daily Show under both Kilbourne and Stewart, so there's that.
Oh well.
With the funding cut, I guess the first thing to go is free access by community members to professional studio space to interview guests (if that's the thing you're shooting), to cameras, microphones, studio equipment, and all that other stuff that helps to produce a decent quality show. For folks with the bucks to spend and who want to shoot out in the field anyway, I guess it is no sweat ... for folks without the $$$ or who would prefer to record in a studio, tough luck. Long live the free blog ...
What’s not really discussed in that article, and what 53-year-old roller-skate daddy, David Miles Jr. of "Skatin' Place," brought up over 7 years ago and was eventually fired from the board of director for daring to ask is, “Why did we move our offices to a $12,000 per month location on Market street instead of a $1 per year city owned building?”
There are a lot of different battles going on, but I think the biggest one was when these corporate raiders saw that there was a lot of money to be raided in public TV in the early 2000s and they ran those stations into the ground. Sucks because I really love Talk to the Hand and even Reality Check, but I’m with D on this one. The internet has made public access obsolete