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October 9, 2006
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Welcome to CTAM's Website |
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The mission of CTAM is to advance democratic ideals by ensuring that people in Maine have access to electronic media. In order for democracy to flourish, people must be active participants in their government, educated to think critically, and free to express themselves.
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CTAM is a state-wide non-profit organization created to support the efforts of community media in Maine. The membership represents a variety of existing community television organizations throughout the state that have developed, and manage, local cable "access" channels. |
CTAM was founded in 1982 as a networking organization for community television stations in Maine and has been incorporated as a 501(c)3 non-profit since 1992. As an affiliate member of Maine Municipal Association, we assist more than 150 towns in Maine with their Public, Educational and Governmental television channels.
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ACM-NE Video Festival - November 17, 2006 |
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The ACM-NE Video Festival honors and promotes community communications and local cable programs that are first distributed on Public, Educational, and Government (PEG) access or Local Origination (LO), cable television channels. Awards are presented to creative programs that address community needs, develop diverse community involvement, challenge conventional commercial television formats, and move viewers to experience television in a different way.
All entries must be postmarked 9/15/06 or delivered in-hand by 9/18/06.
This year's day-long festival, to be held in Brocton, MA on November 17th, will include workshop tracks and a key-note dinner.
Note from Sally Hebert, CTAM Chairperson:
Please checkout the website for the 2006 ACM-NE Fall Video Festival and all day workshop/conference tracks.
This is a regional conference with three tracts - Technology, Producers & Staff and Management and Board. Each track will have a morning and afternoon workshop.
I would like to see some video entries from Maine. Maine has lacked in attending these conferences and video festivals.
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CTAM Board Members Dave Chipman and Tony Vigue meet with community television producer Toni Seger and friend, Representative Mike Michaud at the Norway Public Library on July 8 to discuss the potential impact of current federal legislation on the local franchising process. Representative Michaud was attending the Norway Arts Festival and graciously agreed to meet with us and listen to our concerns. The meeting was beneficial for everyone and we would like to take this opportunity to thank Representative Michaud for his time and Toni Seger for arranging the meeting.
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CTAM E-Mail Address To Change |
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Please note that CTAM's e-mail address of many years, [email protected], will soon be discontinued. Please begin using our new e-mail address, [email protected], immediately in all correspondence. Thank you!
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New Resources Added
On the Resources page of this website you will find two new sections: Access Center Policy Manuals and Franchise Agreements. If you would like to share either your center's policy manual or your community's franchise agreement, please e-mail them to [email protected] for posting in the appropriate section. Other materials for the CTAM Resources library would also be appreciated.
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Video Programs Available/Wanted
Until your webmaster is able to create an interactive database of programs produced by Maine access centers and independant producers, please post a listing of programs that you would like to offer to other access centers and suggestions/requests for programming you would like to receive in a newly created section of our CTAM Forums.
read more...
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Interactive Database of Maine Access Centers |
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Your webmaster has finally posted an interactive database of information on each known Access Center in the State of Maine. In addition to being able to search the database by City or Center and by the type of access provided (educational, governmental, PEG, leased access, etc), you can click on the make PDF button to prepare a printable report.
Authorized access center contact persons will be able to add and update information to this database and even upload both a logo and photo image to be displayed with their center's information. We encourage any access center contact persons to register as a user of this site so that they will be able to make changes and additions as necessary. There are also several new fields of data that we had not included in the old Excel and PDF access center listings - center's website URL, cities or towns served (in addition to a center's place of physical location), contact person's title, and a brief description providing more information about the center. At this time, most centers have not filled in these new fields - we encourage them to do so as soon as possible.
To access the searchable database of centers, please click on the "Centers" tab in the top menu of each page of this website. There are also two other views of a subset of this data found on other pages of the site: a list of access center e-mail addresses found under the "Contact" tab and a list of access center website addresses found under the "Links" tab.
Please advise your webmaster using the below e-mail link if you are having any problems with accessing or using this new information or if you have suggestions for other reports or fields of information to be added.
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News Feed From Save Access |
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Here's a sample of some of the articles available at Save Access. Please visit the site for more information and ways you can get involved!
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saveaccess's blog
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