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Your voice, your vote NO on 200 (see below) and your dollars will keep
Access Tucson, in-depth local television coverage, media education and
freedom of expression alive in Tucson.

The Proposition 200 threat is so serious that Access Tucson is asking each of you to take the time and care to inform yourself (and others) about the cost and consequences of this proposed unfunded mandate to the Tucson City Charter.

The City of Tucson has extensive information on its websites:

http://cms3.tucsonaz.gov/hottopic/public-safety-first-initiative for an overview and voter information.

http://www.tucsonaz.gov/clerks/propositions.php for copies of the initiative.

http://cms3.tucsonaz.gov/docs/IAPC-09-30-09.pdf for the City and County breakdown of costs.
Breaking News: the League of Woman Voters of Greater Tucson is organizing a debate about all the propositions on the ballot. The debate will be this coming Monday 10/19 at 5:30pm at the Pima County Public Library, Main Branch Downtown. 

Access Tucson is covering this debate.
Watch for it on TV!
Starting Thursday 10/22 through Monday 11/2
Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8pm
Access Tucson channel 74 (Comcast) / 99 (Cox)
Mondays at 1pm
Access Tucson channel 73* (Comcast) / 98 (Cox)

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As We See It (49:53)
As We See It is a community partnership between City High School and Pan Left Productions (a local video cooperative). Student projects include a personal still-frame narrative, a digital storytelling video, and a global issues documentary while the wide range of subject matter includes chapstick, hatred, food safety, normalcy, meth and water issues.

Cablecasting through the month of October
Saturdays at 3pm on Access Tucson channel 74 (Comcast) / 99 (Cox)
Mondays at 8pm on Access Tucson channel 73* (Comcast) / 98 (Cox)



World Harmony: Can It Happen? (58:30)
A program dedicated to creating more peace and harmony in the world. This week host Stuart Thomas (pictured) examines media reform.  Featured guests include Andy Roth, writer of the guest opinion "Media must cover wars, not cover them up" (Arizona Daily Star, 9-16-09). Before moving to Tucson, Roth served as the Associate Director of Project Censored from 2006-2008.

LIVE alternating Thursdays at 6pm (next live 10/22)
Access Tucson channel 72* (Comcast) / 120* (Cox)
Replays Saturdays at noon on Access Tucson channel 73* (Comcast) / 98 (Cox)



Musicale Regale 2009 (1:00:00)
The boys of the Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus have been entertaining both local and international audiences since 1939, that's seventy years of song. This year the Musicale Regale, an annual fundraising event honors the commitment of John and Roseann Munger, long-time Boys Chorus' volunteers and supporters.

Premiere Weekend
Saturday 10/24 at 8pm and 11pm
Sunday 10/25 at 8pm and 11pm
Access Tucson channel 74 (Comcast) / 99 (Cox)




Never Perfect (1:05:00)
From our FSTV documentary series, Never Perfect explores the complex journey of a young Vietnamese-American woman's struggle with popular perceptions of beauty and body image as she fights the stigma of racial self-hatred in her decision to undergo cosmetic surgery.



Saturdays October 10/17 and 10/24 at 6pm
Access Tucson channel 74 (Comcast) / 99 (Cox)

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157 finalists in 56 categories announced for the 2009 WAVE Awards.

The WAVE (Western Access Video Excellence) Awards were created in 1988 to recognize and promote the best in local community programming produced in the Western region of the Alliance for Community Media (ACM). The Western region includes Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada and New Mexico.

Three community productions by Access Tucson are finalists in three different professional categories. If you would like to see any of the Access Tucson productions, just call 520-624-9833 and request a replay or send an email to Vikki Dempsey, Program Manager.


Special Audience Programming Category for Professionals

Living Healthy in America, a series providing information for the refugee and immigrant community of Tucson about health issues, home safety and injury prevention produced for La Frontera Center, Inc.




Music Programming Category for Professionals

Foreigner Benefit Concert, international rock legends perform a benefit concert for La Paloma's Children's programs.





Community Event Category for Professionals

Railroad Day Celebration, community reenactment of the train's first 1880 arrival in Tucson produced for the Southern Arizona Transportation Museum.

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Two programs by individual producers were also selected as finalists in three different community producer categories.

Experimental/Innovative Category for Community Producers


Reid Silvern's Fed Pride, a talk show from a federal employee's perspective was selected as a finalist in this most intriguing category.

Tuesdays at 7pm on Access Tucson channel 73* (Comcast) / 98 (Cox)
Thursdays at 4pm on Access Tucson channel 74 (Comcast) / 99 (Cox)


Community Event Category for Community Producers and Magazine Category for Community Producers


Locally sponsored by member Steve Luesse, Outlook Video is a Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) monthly program filled with stories from all over the country. Three of Outlook Video's episodes made the finals. One of the programs in the magazine category features a story about LGBT Pride in Tucson.


Sundays at 8pm on Access Tucson channel 72* (Comcast) / 120* (Cox)
Thursdays at 5pm on Access Tucson channel 73* (Comcast) / 98 (Cox)

Winners will be announced at the Annual Western Regional Conference hosted by Sierra Nevada Community Access Television (SNCAT) in Reno, Nevada on Saturday October 17.  Good luck to our finalists.

All Tucson public access channels are operated and controlled by Access Tucson.  Access Tucson is an independent, nonprofit corporation and is not an agent or affiliate of Cox Communications, Comcast or the City of Tucson.  Cox Communications, Comcast, the City of Tucson and Access Tucson are prohibited by law from controlling the content of programs on public access channels.  They are not responsible in any way for the content of public access programs, and are not liable for any material cablecast on pubic access channels.  Public access users and producers are solely responsible for and have complete control of the content of their programs.  You can produce your own program and use this channel to share your message with the community.  Go to accesstucson.org or call (520) 624-9833 to find out how.