In December the Atlanta City Council did something increasingly rare among local governments: It reinvested in public access television. By approving nearly $1.6 million in funding over three years to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Authenticity may be “dangerous and expensive,” per Tina Fey, for those itching to bask in the harsh spotlight of mainstream ...

Denver Open Media is celebrating its fourth anniversary tonight. It’s a unique organization in that their public access TV station does not get much of anything from the city of Denver. The government ...

The number of channels and rate of funding for New York City’s thriving public access TV scene could be made the same as that for the rest of the country if a massive telecommunications overhaul now ...

Picture this: You’re a 16-year-old in New Haven. It’s midnight on a Friday. You’re flipping through the channels on the TV in your grandma’s basement. 26, 27, 28 … wait, what? You flip back to channel ...

In 1971, a media experiment was born: public access television for New York City. If you had any idea whatsoever, your chances were pretty high to be slotted into the programming schedule with ...

Director David Shadrack Smith poses with a television at the premiere of his documentary "Public Access." The documentary showcased the controversy that came with the unprecedented media landscape ...

Community Access Television Services (CATS) is digitizing its archive of roughly 60,000 videos for public access. CATS adheres to the First Amendment and maintains neutrality in its content, with ...

Authenticity may be "dangerous and expensive," per Tina Fey, for those itching to bask in the harsh spotlight of mainstream celebrity. But it's still precious currency to creators determined to find ...