O2e-tv Trifold Brochure

What is O2E-TV? O2E-TV is a non-profit organization formed to build and operate a Public Access Television Studio Facility. We will provide low-cost training in television production, production assistance, and free use of equipment for non-commercial, non-profit purposes, on a first-come, first-served, nondiscriminatory basis, as a community service in the public interest. O2E-TV will be a hybrid facility, with true firstcome, first served public access, and a funded block of quality local non-commercial programming, including news, arts, and public affairs.

While there are hundreds of public access television studios all over the country, O2E-TV will be unique, standing upon the heritage of experimental video originating in Binghamton, including Larry Gottheim, and Ken Jacobs, who created Binghamton University’s Cinema department, Ralph Hocking who created the Experimental Television Center, and of course, Rod Serling, perhaps one of the greatest pioneers in the (then) new medium of television.

Greater Binghamton Public Access TV Community Self-Expression …with a Focus on the Arts

O2E-TV’s unique programming will be distributed to 72,000 homes regionally on cable, and far beyond the Greater Binghamton area via streaming and on-demand video on the internet. Digital broadcast partners are being sought... 

www.O2ETV.org

O2E is Open to Everyone! While there is probably little anyone can do to bring the factories back, O2E-TV will help highlight the exciting and emergent arts community we have here right now! (But which we largely remain ignorant, because the commercial media has failed to serve local communities.) O2E-TV will build on our existing intellectual and creative capital and help foster cultural tourism to this area!

Get Involved! O2E–TV needs YOU! …Your Creativity …Your Ideas …Your Energy …Your Vision Contact:

[email protected]

How will we pay for it?

Who will O2E-TV serve?

A diversified funding stream will ensure independence. Independence ensures unfettered creativity, freedom, and autonomy.

This facility will truly serve underserved constituencies. Local productions / Local focus will benefit all citizens. Because the facility will be open to anyone in the community, and because the producers come from the community, the program diversity will more naturally match the broad and diverse classes of people who live in our community

Capital grants will be secured from various foundations and other grant-makers to purchase a building and equipment. Obtaining ~$250,000/yr for our operational costs (salaries, electricity/heat, consumables, and equipment repairs) will be our biggest challenge. Possible sources of sustaining / operational funds • • • • • •

Cable TV Franchise fees typically are used to fund these operations. Membership/Subscriptions/Co-Op Shares creates community investment Fundraisers Special grants Corporate underwriters Hotel-Motel tax

We need the help of expert fundraisers to help us solve this major challenge!

"First-Come, First-Served, Non-Discriminatory Access" ensures that all people, without regard to race, class, age, gender, political persuasion, physical disability, religion, ethnicity will be able to use these resources. No one is excluded. Who will be on the governing board? The board membership will reflect the diversity of the community served in every way: race, class, age, gender, gender identity, ethnicity, religion, political persuasion, physical disability.

\ Fig 1: A typical facility

O2E-TV will celebrate the best intellectual and creative talent which is already here in our own community, but which we largely remain ignorant, because the commercial media has failed to serve communities. WSKG has their own constraints (regional focus, state funding cuts, network agreements, a restrictive union contract) preventing them from doing more. Imagine university symposia and intellectual round tables televised for all. Imagine live public affairs and talk shows featuring call-ins. Imagine the creative partnership with Binghamton University’s BTV and Cinema Department, BCC’s Communication Department, and theater, bands, animators, and visual artists from BHS and other local high schools! While Public Access TV is “just a hobby” to many people, it also can be a low-cost way for people to enter the exciting video/film industry. Many successful movie and video producers actually started out in Public Access, including Robert Gonzalez, Tom Green, and Alex Jones.