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Orientation Class Announcement
Last Chance this Year!
Are you a Sacramento County resident who wants to share your thoughts, opinions, and ideas on local television or radio? Consider joining Access Sacramento! We are a free-speech forum that gets you 'access' to popular forms of media so you can do just that. We exist so that you can express yourself and share what you're passionate about on local television and radio. Did you know that as a member of Access Sacramento you get one hour of airtime each month? Did you know that members get to use most of our equipment for free? Want to know more? Come to our last orientation class of the year.
Access Sacramento's Orientation class meets on Wednesday, December 18th at 6pm.
The class is free and open to the public. It will last a little over an hour. It is also a mandatory step in becoming an Access Sacramento member and should be taken at your earliest convenience. Sign up now as classes fill up fast and our next orientation class will not be taking place until January 2014.
The Orientation Class will give you a chance to ask questions and learn about our services and what we provide to the community and its members. We also will go over the standard classes we offer and member benefits as well as getting a tour of the facility. The class is taught by our Executive Director, Gary Martin and occasionally by staff persons Michelle Barbaria and Elizabeth Harrison.
Please take note that the holidays conflict with other normally scheduled orientation classes so please mark your calendar if you are considering membership. All classes are provided on a first come, first serve basis, so take advantage before the classes fill up. You must be a member in order to take our standard classes, but orientation is open to everyone and is the first step in becoming a member of Access Sacramento.
We hope to see you there!
For more information on class availability contact Access Sacramento's Front Desk at:
(916) 456-8600 Ext: 0.
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Access Sacramento
(located inside of the Coloma Community Center)
4623 T Street, suite A
Sacramento, Ca. 95819
Our regular office hours are Monday through Friday 9-6. Memberships must be done in person between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.
We are close on City recognized Holidays.
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"2014 Calendars Are Here!"
We can hardly believe it! The Access Sacramento 2014 calendars are here. The New Year is around the corner and you can get your free calendar at Access Sacramento (limit one per person).
We have four styles to choose from including classic images from artist, Norman Rockwell. We also have beautiful images of "Celebration of African-American Art" by various artists, majestic images of America, and also lush scenes of California.
Items are limited and subject to a first come, first serve basis. Come into the Access Sacramento Main Office during our normal business hours, Monday through Friday between 9 a.m and 6 p.m. to pick up your copy.
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Access Sacramento's Main Office hours changed on Nov. 1, 2013.
The new hours are Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. If you need to sign up or re-new your membership you must be in the office by 5:30 p.m. If you regularly drop off programs and/or need to upload your program after the 6 p.m. closing, you may do so in the Production Office.
The Production office will remain open until 9:00 p.m. Please allow enough time to upload your program and be completed by 8:45 p.m. since the building closes promptly at 9 p.m.
Media lab hours are currently the same, but look here for new extended Media Lab hours soon.
Thank you for supporting Access Sacramento!
In you have questions, please contact the
Office Manager, Michelle Barbaria at 916-456-8600 extension 0.
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Place Called Sacramento Film Festival DVDs Available for Purchase
DVDs with all 10 films from the Place Called Sacramento Film Festival are available to purchase with a credit card by calling the Access Sacramento Front Office at 916-456-8600 extension 0.
Cash or check purchases can be made by coming into the Front Office and checks can be mailed to:
Access Sacramento
4623 T Street, Suite A
Sacramento, CA 95819-4743
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"Fall Classes Scheduled" 
Our newest schedule is out and classes have been added. If you are already a member of Access Sacramento and your membership is up to date you can call and sign up over the phone using your credit card. If you are interested in becoming a member of Access Sacramento and would like to take the classes you must come and sign up in person for your membership. Orientation happens once or twice each month and is a good place to start. It is mandatory to attend one and it is free. You do not need to be a member to attend Orientation. You must be a member of Access Sacramento in order to take the other classes.
Upcoming Classes:
Orientation
Wednesday, December 18th at 6 p.m.
TV Studio Operation/Production
Saturday, December 7th at 9 a.m.
Basics of Digital Camera and Editing
TBA
*sign up is first come, first served. Classes fill up quickly and reservations are made only with payment.
Call the Access Sacramento office M-F between 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. to sign up over the phone or drop by our offices located at 4623 T Street in Sacramento, 95819. We are located inside of the Coloma Community Center.
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Stay Connected with
Access Sacaramento!
You can get information about Access Sacramento in many ways. If you're away from home or cable TV, then watch us live from our main website!
Push Watch TV 17 for The Sacramento Channel
Push Watch TV 18 for Sacramento Public Access
Follow us on Twitter
@accesssac
General Information
Get the latest on programming, upcoming classes or services, and news about Access Sacramento in the community.
@SacGOTW
Hometown TV Game of the Week
Learn what's coming up on the schedule, the latest about this week's game, and get in-game updates. Plus, if you send us a tweet during the game, your comment may appear on the air LIVE, Fridays at 7pm on Comcast and SureWest Cable Ch. 17, and AT&T U-verse Ch. 99. Replays on Saturdays at 11 a.m. and Tuesdays and 7 p.m.
Like us on Facebook
Access Sacramento
https://www.facebook.com/pages/A
ccess-Sacramento/170587545355
Learn about Access Sacramento in the community, information about upcoming classes, and current news and information affecting public access cable.
A Place Called Sacramento Film Festival
https://www.facebook.com/
groups/343414605740324/
Find details about this year's 10 films, production news , and the crews, directors and stars. World Premiere Sunday Oct. 6 at 1pm at The Crest Theatre in Sacramento.
LiveWire
https://www.facebook.com/g
roups/133349386715657/
LiveWire is Sacramento's longest running LIVE weekly talk show and it can be seen every Wednesday at 5pm on Comcast/SureWest Cable Ch. 17 and AT&T U-Verse Ch. 99. Find out about current guests, topics and see highlights from shows.
Facebook Fan Sites
"Listen Up Sacramento!"
https://www.facebook.com/g
roups/108782482477651/
Fans of Access Sacramento's twice monthly music performance show "Listen Up Sacramento!" offer info about performers, singers, and bands that have appeared on the show including new performance announcements and news from the groups.
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Community reports from our
Neighborhood News Bureaus.
Click here.
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Next time you are in the office, ask to to join the Access Sacramento - SaveMart SHARES program. We will give you a plastic SHARES card. Hand the SHARES card to the checker each time you check-out at SaveMart and they will donate 3% of your total grocery bill to Access Sacramento.
This costs you nothing - the 3% comes from SaveMart as a supporter of our nonprofit organization. Once you get into the habit of remembering your SHARES card, the rest is simple. Thanks to you and SaveMart for supporting Access Sacramento.
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2013 Workshop Schedule
Click on the image above to view the Access Sacramento workshop schedule
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2013 Program Schedule
(Click on the image above to view Access Sacramento programming schedules
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Latest Press
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Watch Access programming on Comcast OnDemand today!
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Click to listen to Access Sacramento's own locally produced radio station.
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DW-TV (Watch Deutsche-Welle TV in English) Daily News from the heart of Europe. Plus Arts, Travel, and Entertainment features. Weeknights 5:30 pm & 11:30 pm on Channel 17 and on Channel 18 every other hour.
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Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman - Progressive news stories from around the world!!
Weeknights @ 6pm & 12am
http://democracynow.org/
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New T-shirts Available in Office
WWe are all about storytelling. Your stories- my stories-everyone. Check out our new t-shirt design now available in the office for only $12 each.
Remember the Story is You
check them out!
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CORRECTION
The Access Sacramento newsletter Sights and Sounds last week misidentified Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simidian as being from Contra Costa County. Access Sacramento regrets the error.
Access Sacramento has a policy of correcting factual errors when they are discovered. Please direct any comments or corrections to postmaster@AccessSacramento.org.
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Thank you for your support.
Gary Martin, Executive Director
Access Sacramento
4623 T Street
Sacramento, CA. 95819
(916) 456-8600 #100
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Access Sacramento Applies for
Low-Power FM Radio License
Executive Director, Access Sacramento
Access Sacramento's radio operation "The Voice" may begin broadcasting over-the-airwaves from downtown Sacramento in late 2014 if the FCC approves an application filed last week to operate a Low-Power FM (LPFM) radio station.
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The application-filing window closed Friday for non-profit groups to submit an on-line request for the rarely offered LPFM broadcast frequencies. The last opportunity was a decade ago.
"Because a LPFM station like this broadcasts less than 10-miles in any one direction, the programming is acutely local," said Shane Carpenter, Access Sacramento's radio coordinator. "Because our programmers are already used to serving Sacramento County on cable, this would be a great opportunity for additional outreach."
Currently, radio programmers from Access Sacramento are heard as a backdrop to the community message bulletin board on our two cable channels and on the Internet.
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Radio programmers work from two radio production and broadcast studios at Access Sacramento inside the Coloma Community Center.
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The LPFM station application, if approved, would become a training ground for community producers who want to share their messages and programming simultaneously on cable, the Internet and over the airwaves.
Access Sacramento provides radio and television programing that is unique in Sacramento County, serving the community with its mission by "giving voice to the thoughts, dreams, opinions, and community events not otherwise seen or heard on commercial or public, TV, radio or other popular forms of media."
Access Sacramento's "The Voice" radio service has been in operation from the organization's beginning 27 years ago and originally was heard as a second-audio-channel for cable subscribers in Sacramento County.
An unknown number of non-profit organizations will have applied for the available frequencies across America, and Access Sacramento expects to learn in the next few weeks who else has applied for a frequency in this area.
Experts from Common Frequency, an engineering firm hired by Access Sacramento to help with the technical specifications of its application, predict a minimum of two frequencies are likely for the capital region.
Frequency locations with only one applicant are scheduled to be notified in early 2014 of their approval for a construction permit. For frequencies with multiple applicants, an opportunity to partner will be encouraged by the FCC before any allocation decision.
LPFM station applications became available after Congress directed the FCC to create more broadcast opportunities for community-based radio in the Local Community Radio Act of 2010. The rule expanded the availability even more by including larger urban areas that had been restricted under an earlier law.
According to the Prometheus Radio Project, there are more than 800 LPFM stations already on the air with programming from non-profit agencies, churches, colleges and emergency responders.
Access Sacramento is a non-profit 501(c)3 foundation providing video services on Comcast and SureWest Cable channel 17 and 18 and on AT&T U-Verse Channel 99. Both the video channels and "The Voice" can be heard by clicking on the appropriate link from AccessSacramento.org.
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Watch the "Place Called Sacramento" Films On-Line
This year's 10 original short films created for Access Sacramento's 14th Annual Place Called Sacramento film festival can be viewed on-line from the AccessLocal.tv website.
The films made their world premiere at The Crest Theatre last month after 10 script writers-turned-producers delivered their films, all of which showcase some aspect of living in Sacramento.
The films can be found at http://accesslocal.tv/category/local-film/pcs2013/
"The quality of this year's film script submissions was particularly high," said Michelle Barbaria, the 2013 Place Called Sacramento film festival coordinator. "The audience at the premiere was delighted by the exceptional effort by all the filmmakers. The acting and the technical aspects really showcased the quality of Sacramento filmmakers."
Each of the films runs no more than 10-minutes including opening titles and closing credits.
The initial call for script entries into the 15th Annual Place Called Sacramento will go out in January, 2014. Watch the Access Sacramento website AccessSacramento.org for details.
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Star Trek Star Visits Access Sacramento
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(From left) Actor, Director Musician Tim Russ, Sacramento Film Works hosts Kanisha Allen and Cline Moore.
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Hollywood actor, director and musician Tim Russ provided acting pointers and an insider's view of working in the television and movie industry during the Saturday evening taping of "Sacramento Film Works," which airs at 6 p.m. on the first Saturday of every month on Access Sacramento.
The Northern California Filmmakers Coalition produces the show hosted by Kanisha Allen and Cline Moore. The program highlights filmmaking in the Sacramento region and is noted for its focus on providing job tips for aspiring filmmakers.
Russ is best known in his role as Tuvok on the Star Trek Voyager series. He continues to work in television and movies as an actor, but recently also directed a new lower budget feature film, Star Trek Renegades, due out in 2014.
Russ showed a clip from the film, revealing the story involves the need for a select group of Renegades to help solve problems where traditional Federation involvement is impossible.
An audience of nearly 30 jammed into the Access Sacramento studio for the opportunity to see the program and get pictures and autographs with the star.
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Access Sacramento Studio during the taping of Sacramento Film Works.
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The full episode with Russ is not expected to air until after the start of the New Year.
For more information about the program and the Northern California Filmmaker Coalition go to www.ncfc.tv The group meets weekly on Wednesday's at 6 p.m. in the Coloma Community Center in Sacramento.
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"Barz"
Tonight, November 19th
at 11 PM ON CH. 17
By Listen Up! Co-Producer, Michelle A. Barbaria
Listen Up! Sacramento is happy to present "Barz" otherwise known as Tavor Jackson. His rough, yet smooth voice will hypnotize you while he raps. His beats and lyrics are all original and reflect his laid back style. While he has laid back style he is definitely a hard-working man. He's got skills in entertainment and works hard every day to share them with you. We hope you will enjoy the chill vocals of Sacramento's own "Barz".
For more information on "Barz" like him at https://www.facebook.com/tavor.jackson
Listen Up! Sacramento featuring "Barz" airs on Tuesday, November 19th at 11 p.m. on channel 17 on Access Sacramento. You can also watch Listen Up! online the same time it airs on TV at AccessSacramento.org and click 'watch 17'.
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Listen Up! Sacramento features local musicians of all genres and languages. Opinions or statements made on the program do not reflect the opinions of Listen Up! Sacramento and the staff of Access Sacramento. If you are a musician in the Sacramento region and you'd like to be a guest on the show you can submit your information and include a sample of your music or a link to your music to: Listen.Up.Sacramento@gmail.com
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Sacramento Mental Health Dialogue Featured in Access
Sacramento TV Special
Sacramento residents participated in a "National Dialogue on Mental Health" in July, and a TV special documenting the discussion and the call to find community-based solutions to mental health needs can be seen on Access Sacramento beginning Saturday, Nov. 30 at 8 p.m.
Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, Congresswoman Doris Matsui and Assembly member Roger Dickinson were among the 350 community residents who gathered to discuss ways of breaking down misperceptions about mental health issues and to promote recovery and healthy communities.
Access Sacramento's Hometown TV special is hosted by Sacramento's Isaac Gonzalez who helps interview the presenters in documenting the day. Additional interviews are done by Rick Stewart and Erika Bradley.
The hour-long special can first be seen at 8 p.m. Nov. 30 in Sacramento County on Comcast and SureWest Cable Channel 17 and AT&T U-Verse Channel 99. For those not in Sacramento County, the program can be seen on the Internet from AccessSacramento.org. Additional replays are listed below.
A nationwide call to action by President Obama in the area of mental health triggered the Sacramento event, sponsored by the "Creating Community Solutions" organization.
Information about how to participate in the National Dialogue with printable discussion guides can be found at http://www.creatingcommunitysolutions.org/
A full report on the results of the Sacramento dialogue is available for download from
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/
u/63932895/CCSSummaryReportFinal.pdf
Additional Access Sacramento replays are scheduled:
Sunday, Dec. 1 at 12:00 p.m.
Monday, Dec. 2 at 4:00 a.m.
Sunday, Dec. 8 at 5:00 p.m.
Monday Dec. 9 at 9 a.m. (Internet only)
Tuesday Dec. 10 at 1:00 a.m.
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Driving Safety Featured on LiveWire Tomorrow at 5pm
How to be smart and safe this Holiday season is one of the topics for LiveWire! tomorrow at 5pm on Access Sacramento.
LiveWire! is happy to welcome back Chris Cochran, Assistant Director of the California Office of Traffic Safety. He will be on the program to give us some safe driving tips for the season. He always has a wise word to share regarding driving safety and information that is important to keep you, your family and friends safe and happy this season.
We are also happy to welcome Alice Lopez, Senior Insurance Compliance Officer of the California Department of Insurance. It is a state sponsored program and can help you find affordable insurance to protect you and others in case of traffic collision or other vehicle related incident. The law requires California residents to have insurance and Ms. Lopez will give you all the basic you will need to know so you will feel protected and safe and in compliance with the law. For more details about the California Department of Insurance - Low Cost Auto Insurance please visit http://www.insurance.ca.gov. Tune in to LiveWire! tomorrow, November 20th at 5 p.m. on Access Sacramento Channel 17. You can also watch the simulcast online at the same time at AccessSacramento.org and click 'watch 17'.
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Tips for Local Small Business to
Air on Access Sacramento
A Hometown TV special features business consultants with a series of advice for small businesses in a special presentation about the Sacramento Metro Chamber's Small Business Metro Expo airs Saturday, Nov. 30 at 6 p.m. on Access Sacramento.
Access Sacramento cameras captured a series of speakers and interviewed representatives of featured businesses during the Expo at McClellan Conference Center on Sept. 26.
The two-hour highlight show can be seen on Access Sacramento, Comcast and SureWest cable channel 17 or AT&T U-Verse channel 99. The program will also be streamed on the web from
AccessSaramento.org Push Watch 17.
The event is just one of many featured activities from the Sacramento Metro Chamber coordinated by the Sales and Membership Services department and Senior Vice President Philip MacDougall.
Replays are scheduled on
Sunday, Dec. 1 at 10:00 a.m.
Monday, Dec. 2 at 2:00 a.m.
Sunday, Dec. 8 at 6:00 p.m.
Monday, Dec. 9 at 10:00 a.m. (Internet Only)
Tuesday, Dec. 10 at 2:00 a.m.
The program is created under a Hometown TV grant from Access Sacramento, a 501(c)3 non-profit foundation that operates public access cable channels in Sacramento County.
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Interning At Access Sacramento Creates Opportunity
By Erika Bradley
Access Sacramento Intern
Currently I am a student at Sacramento State majoring in Mass Communication with a minor in Journalism. At this time I do not have a specific career in mind, however, I do know that in some way I would like to work in the media.
Interning at Access Sacramento is a great way for me to accomplish my goals and get the experience I want. I am looking to get experience in television production, learning all different types of jobs associated in the production process. It correlates with my studies in several ways. First, communication is very important in production.
There are many other people to communicate with when filming to make sure that everything from set-up to the actual filming to tear down goes as well as possible. I want to minor in journalism because I want to also know how to write and report. This way I know more about all of the parts of production verses only part of it.
For more about Erika and the internship experience at Access Sacramento, read the full article at this link in AccessLocal.TV:
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