PEG Volunteer Programming Advisory Committee Minutes

October 19, 2015October 19, 2015 Terrence Vaughn 3182 Views Comments channel 3, city of fort bragg, Comcast, Mendocino Coast Media, Mendocino TV, PEG Volunteer Programming Advisory Committee

Wednesday October 14th the Channel 3 PEG Volunteer Programming Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes

Until more content becomes available to populate the other channels (ch 64 & 65) dedicated to PEG, there will be a mixing of Public, Educational & Government on Channel 3.

The new Channel 3 was designed by the City of Fort Bragg’s PEG Ad Hoc Committee along with Mendocino TV acting as a technical advisor and consultant.
The new Channel 3 is administered by Mendocino TV under contract to the City of Fort Bragg for one year, July 1st 2015 through June 30th 2016.
The new Channel 3 is funded by The County of Mendocino and The City of Fort Bragg from franchise fees distributed by Comcast from a surcharge included in every Comcast CATV subscribers bill.
The new Channel 3 broadcasts to subscribers over a private network. You must subscribe to Comcast Cable Television to watch The new Channel 3 on Channel 3.
The new Channel 3 is not funded by taxes and is not a public institution.
The new Channel 3 broadcast equipment is located in small room in the back of Town Hall.
The new Channel 3 accepts media donated from public and private sources. The media must conform to certain standards regarding copyrights, non-commercial nature and other minimum standards.
Media guidelines are:
- NTSC standard USA television in either 4/3 or 16/9 aspect ratio, 29.97 frames per second. (drop frame time-code) If it can play on a consumer DVD player it’s good.
- Delivered as:
  - DVD that will play on a consumer DVD player
  - Digital file encoded as either MP4, H.264, Mpeg2, AVI on a thumb drive, Memory Stick or SD memory card.
  - Link to a video sharing web site with the necessary passwords to download it.
  - Video Tape, VHS, SVHS, Hi8, 8, Digital8, miniDV as a finished and edited movie ready for play, no editing performed by us.
The PEG Volunteer Programing Committee is a volunteer organization tasked with stimulating community / government cooperation in developing programs and productions that will populate Channel 3 with quality, diverse, local media content. We meet the third Wednesday of each month at the Mendocino TV studio in the Company Store at 6:00pm.