CTPA CHRONICLES

Community Television Producers Association
PO Box 62207
Honolulu, HI  96839-2207

E-mail:  ctpa@aloha.net
Website:  www.aloha.net/~ctpa



ANNUAL MEETING
18 March 1997 Tuesday 7p-9p at ‘Olelo. Please plan to attend.


ELECTIONS
     For five vacancies will be held at the Annual Meeting on 18 March 1997.
Nominations will be taken from the floor. Be responsible and exercise your 
right to vote. Only current paid up members may vote or run for office. 
Pay your dues now.


SLATE OF OFFICERS
  The following Slate is presented by the Nominating Committee.

	Dennis Callan
	Seido Francavilla
	Andwele Gardner
	Father John
	Brian Lee


NETWORKING PARTIES AND GENERAL MEETING
     The CTPA inaugurated the first of our Networking Parties on 5 October
1996. The theme for these events focuses on the designs of our mission
statement of instigating interest in Public Access, of addressing our
underlying concern of the current state of Public Access and how its
future will impact us. It is also an occasion to encourage new memberships
or former members to return to the CTPA to help us direct the reservations
and interests we hold as a group.
     Our sponsor for the first party, Cosmo Enterprise, covered costs for 
printing the invitation, the postage, the food and the drinks. Cosmo
representative, Thomas Pereira, made a valuable How to take care of
your Tapes presentation. Through the efforts of Community Producer and
former CTPA board member, Jeff Garland, entertainment was provided courtesy
of popular local musician, Willie K.; former CTPA board member, Sean 
McLaughlin, reported about the new channel alignment and; Richard Turner,
‘Olelo Executive Director, briefed the 65 attendees on Public Access.
     A General CTPA meeting followed on November 13 at ‘Olelo. We continued
our discussions on Public Access, its current policies and the CTPA’s
position on the issues and the goals thereof.
     Our second Networking Party on January 14th of 1997, the first big bang
of the year, was sponsored by ‘Olelo who printed the invitation, provided
postage, the food and drinks, along with the use of the classroom and its
amenities. Greg Socher, of Mm&M Advertising, our featured speaker,
addressed the crowd of 70 speaking on the AVID edit system and non-linear
editing. He was such a huge hit, we had to cut his time on stage to allow
others to speak. ‘Olelo Production Trainer, Andy Jacobs, and CTPA directors
Wendy Arbeit and Brian Lee also made informative presentations on various
topics regarding Public Access. All in all, the evening was a smashing
success of informational exchange, meeting new people and networking ideas
with each other. If you missed attending, we recommend you consider coming
to the next one.


HOTLINE
The CTPA telephone hot line has been deactivated. 

With only a handful of calls in the course of three months, the board
decided it was not cost effective.


ACCESS THE WORLD ON THE INTERNET
     Abundant information about Community Television may be found on the World
Wide Web.
     For those of you who regularly "surf the net" this may not be news, but
if you have not discovered the incredible resources readily available to
everyone on the net, you're in for some great surprises.
     The CTPA established a web site three years ago [http://www.aloha.net/~ctpa].
This has been a great resource with its information about `Olelo as well as
links to other access centers. In addition, CTPA organizational information,
current events and the latest Newsletter may be seen at this location.
     After much urging `Olelo has finally put up a site, but as of this
writing, it is only a link to legislative matters [http://www.olelo.org].
Miki Lee of `Olelo has said that there will be information for the viewers
on the `Olelo pages soon.
     There is an "unofficial" `Olelo site which contains ample information
about `Olelo, including staff extension numbers, hours of operation,
programming schedules, forms, a tour of LCC Facilities and even a map to
`Olelo [http://www.toptown.com/hp/access hawaii/].
     If you're interested in seeing what's going on with community television
all over the world, there are hundreds of links to access centers and
organizations. Many access centers provide training information, promotion
of client's programming and recognize volunteer activities with pictures of
their awards parties and other events.
     Want to see what's playing on Community Television on Cape Cod? Check out
[http://www.capecod.net/c3tv] Or in Sweden [http://www.openchannel.se/links.htm].
The Alliance for Community Media, the national access organization, is at
[http://www.comm21.acm.html].
     Several producers of Community Television here on Oahu have web sites
with pictures and information about their programs, such as:
        Que Pasa Hawaii [http://www.hotspots.hawaii.com/QuePasa.html]
	Digital Eyes [http://www.aloha.com/~digitali/dgtleyes.htm]
	Sleepless [http://nitrogen.nmr.hawaii.edu/sleepless]
	Hi-Trenz [http://www2.hawaii.ed/usr-cgi/ssis/donaldf/]
Look at their pages and send them an e-mail.
     With emerging technologies comes a more accessible world. Television, 
telephone and the internet will all be in the same box. Very soon our
television audience will not be limited to this island but the community
of the world.


CTPA RESPECTFULLY REQUESTS BULLETIN BOARD
     At ‘Olelo’s December 1996 Board Meeting, the CTPA formally requested
that a new bulletin board be placed in the public work room. This board
would be used for announcements by CTPA as well as other community access
users. In the old facility, there were 8 well used bulletin boards, one of
which was specifically for the CTPA. Despite repeated requests over the
last two years, ‘Olelo has provided only one bulletin board in the new
facility. Since that one is dominated by announcements for mainland events,
little space remains for communication among ‘Olelo’s users. Because the
CTPA feels that communication is the basis of a sense of community necessary
and appropriate to a community broadcasting facility, we have made this
formal request on the behalf of our members and other public access 
participants.


LIGHTS, LIGHTING, LIGHTING!
     ‘Olelo staffer, Dominic Monteleone, reports that he has finished his latest
project of setting up a standard lighting grid in the STUDIO. He says that
producers can now cut down on their studio lighting time that would
otherwise require three to four hours. "In fifteen to twenty minutes, a
quick climb up the ladder with a few minor adjustments to the barndoors,
a tilt or a pan of the lighting instrument and Bang you are done!"
says Dominic. Apparently he labored on a drawing board and in the studio
designing a standard lighting grid to service multiple stage configurations
with one to five talents on camera. For more details, Facilities will
furnish you with the book he prepared with all the information. Just ask
for it. "Is this a great country or what"?



NEW PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION CHANNEL NEEDS PROGRAMMING
     In March 1997, the Personal Transformation Channel becomes the only
television network dedicated to raising consciousness and healing people
through life-changing television programming. This non-profit educational
organization is committed to broadcasting television programs without
commercials that focus on personal growth and promote planetary peace.
If you have consciousness raising or informative videos that would benefit
the world, send a broadcast quality tape (Super VHS or better) to:
	The Personal Transformation Channel
	Attention:  Programming
	25-6 Northwest Twenty-third Pl  #155
	Portland, OR  97210
     A list of paid employment opportunities at the Personal Transformational
Channel will be posted later this year. People with television operations
experience wishing to relocate to Portland, Oregon, send résumés to above
address in care of Television Operations.
     For further information about this channel, call 942-4602.

PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
It is with pride that I can report to you that your volunteer Officers and
Directors of the CTPA have done an excellent job for you. In the past six
months we have experienced great successes in staging of our "get-togethers"
and the affairs of the organization are in good order. The board of directors
has been meeting almost religiously twice a month and that regularity has
been the prime factor in promoting our mission statement in keeping with
the concerns of Public Access. WE have been fortunate to have had sponsors
interested in assisting the CTPA realize its endeavors to better serve you.
These sponsorships have contributed in maintaining our treasury intact and
subsequently the costs incurred have been minimal for the CTPA.

Elections for five vacancies in our 10 member board of directors will take
place at our Annual Meeting scheduled for Tuesday, 18 March 1997 from 7p-9p
at ‘Olelo. It is imperative that you exercise your right to vote for the
candidate of your choice from the slate of candidates prepared by our
nominating committee. Headed by Vice-President John Feil and Director
Ray O’Leary, if you have questions, the committee has answers. In order to
vote or to become eligible as a candidate for office, you must be a paid
up current member, so I urge you to get your dues up to date today.

The CTPA is a member driven organization with a group of volunteers at the
helm. In the past four months we generated 20 new memberships. However,
from the information we receive from ‘Olelo Public Relations person, Miki
Lee, there are a great number of clients on the rolls of Public Access who
are not involved and we hope if you are not currently a member that you
will join and support. Unfortunately, hope is not enough. It is going to
take action to support that hope. That action is your membership. We
encourage the new certified clients and all the former members to become
accountable for Public Access. Become actively involved and join the CTPA.
You will find a membership form in this publication, please use it, we
need your kokua. We need you on our roster when we approach the Legislature
to speak out about our responsibilities in the interest of the users of
Public Access. On behalf of the board of directors, we want to meet you
and we want to see you at the annual meeting. Be there, Aloha!

							Pedro Valdez
							President




Hardworking Newsletter Staff

Jude Dady

Pedro Valdez

Ray O’Leary

Wendy Arbeit


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M E M B E R S H I P   F O R M

CTPA is open to any person interested in Community Access Television.
The Community Television Producers Association is a non-profit organization
which acts as an advocate for community access television.

The association provides a continuation of training and assists members in
achieving quality in their television programming. Since 1987, we have been
a Voice for the community.

Send 1997 membership dues ($15 individual, $20 corporate) to:

CTPA
PO Box 62207
Honolulu, HI  96839-2207

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